Re:Eiffel programming language
by goatinaboat on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:25AM
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Even in the mid-late 90s IBM was still backing Smalltalk as the next big thing, with its (expensive) VisualAge products. By the end of the 90s they had ditched it entirely and pivoted to Java Java Java.
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That was slightly before my time in the industry, do you have any indication on how hard they were backing it? I mean IBM brings out a lot of stuff and was quite aimless in the late 90s/early '00s. They were supporting SmallTalk for quite a while, but on the other hand, so they did with RPG and PL/I…