Re:Ask HN: Why does the enterprise have such a strong affini...
by chromatic on Saturday July 26, 2014 @09:12PM
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Why didn't SmallTalk or some other options that were available at the time do better?
Smalltalk was expensive (VisualAge, VisualWorks, for example) and wanted to own the world (image-based). With the web suddenly solving all deployment problems everywhere (at least, that was the rhetoric), paying thousands of dollars per developer for tools seemed silly.
Smalltalk was expensive (VisualAge, VisualWorks, for example) and wanted to own the world (image-based). With the web suddenly solving all deployment problems everywhere (at least, that was the rhetoric), paying thousands of dollars per developer for tools seemed silly.