panon@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Paul-Andre Panon) (09/12/90)
In article <1"83@ul-cs.ulowell.edu> jrichard@hawk.elowell.edu (John Richardson) writes: > >If Oxxi does go ahead with the Ada project and the compiler generates good >code (not to many Ada compilers do) then we may get some US govt. projects >that would otherwise go off into the Big Blue sky. > >By the way, I would really like to see a smalltalk for the Amiga too. > At the WINDOW conference last weekend here in Vancouver, I was fortunate enough to hear Adele Goldberg talk about "Technology of the future". In separate discussions after her talk, a friend of mine found out that ParcPlace Systems, the new company for which she is both President and CEO, will be developing a new compiled version of smalltalk (read efficient) for a number of target machines, which will use the native windowing systems of those machines. If you want it, you should probably start lobbying :-). My friend said this version sounded highly superior to those previously available. He's a smalltalk freak (he took the opportunity to get her to autograph his copy of the Dynabook report) so he may have known what he was talking about. :-) :-) -- panon@staff.ucs.ubc.ca or USERPAP1@UBCMTSG or ppanon@undergrad.cs.ubc.ca or USERPAP1@mtsg.ubc.ca Looking for a .signature? "We've already got one. It is ver-ry ni-sce!"