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Re:Pharo 4.0 Released by vfclists on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @07:20AM (#9419602)
SmallTalk was designed to BE the computer. Skinning for a native look the way Qt does may be the way to go. Targeting code for native applications should really be a separate thing and should involve additional toolkits.

The commercial Smalltalks do this but they are very pricey.

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Re:Pharo 4.0 Released by seandenigris on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @09:46PM (#9424578)
> SmallTalk was designed to BE the computer

Yes! This is why comparing Smalltalk to programming languages misses the whole point. I just wrote a blog post about this: "Programmers: You Probably Don’t Know What a Computer Is" http://seandenigris.com/blog/?p=1092

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