From: davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) Subject: Re: ALPHA-pl11 available on nic: C++ support Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 17:13:22 GMT
In article <1993Jul12.141007.16817@sol.UVic.CA> pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
>Of course Smalltalk has GC, just as it has a graphical environment that you
>have to drag along, and the inability to develop standalone programs. And,
>it is not generally available in a full implementation,...
GNU SmallTalk has no GUI to drag along, and for the most part you could
create "stand alone" programs, though they would be HUGE do to including lots
of classes you didn't use, along with the interpreter. I guess it is debateable
whether GNU SmallTalk is a "full implementation" or not (especially if you
like/depend on the "standard" SmallTalk GUI).
>
>Self is, I hear, freely available, and has nifty features like multiple dispatch.
What site can I get info on/the source to "Self"?
>But I diverge: we were talking about C++ weren't we :-)
Yes, but I just learned of something I had not heard of, so this was
not a total waste of time. :-)
Dave
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