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Re:Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984) by ncmncm on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:24PM (#32432554)
Are Toit or Ruby important?

We used to think Ruby would turn out to be important. Then it didn't, and Python reclaimed its niche. I have probably heard of Toit before, but am unsure.

Snapshotting your VM state as the way to deliver programs was probably Smalltalk's chief failing.

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Re:Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984) by igouy on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:34PM (#32432656)
Lack of standardization across vendors was by-far the chief failing.

> the way to deliver programs

To judge whether that could be successful, we need to be more specific — deliver what kinds-of programs to what kinds-of end-users?

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Re:Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984) by StillLrning123 on Friday August 12, 2022 @01:35AM (#32435016)
Microsoft Excel is very similar to this kind of deployment and is used _extensively_.
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