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Re:The evolution of Smalltalk: from Smalltalk-72 through Squ... by pjmlp on Thursday June 17, 2021 @03:24PM (#27543497)
In 1996, Java and specially C++ were hardly open source, and everyone can easily see how much those compilers and IDEs used to cost.

Sure the JDK was free beer, and there was this wannabe GCC compiler, but that was it.

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Re:The evolution of Smalltalk: from Smalltalk-72 through Squ... by igouy on Friday June 18, 2021 @02:10AM (#27547809)
The JDK was free beer.
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Re:The evolution of Smalltalk: from Smalltalk-72 through Squ... by pjmlp on Friday June 18, 2021 @03:47AM (#27548260)
What is the point of repeating part of my comment?
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Re:The evolution of Smalltalk: from Smalltalk-72 through Squ... by igouy on Friday June 18, 2021 @11:41AM (#27551517)
To remove the prefix which de-emphasized how really important it was that the JDK was free beer.
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