This is an ambiguous question. There are at least - Smalltalk the language - Smalltalk the libraries - Smalltalk the IDE Now my own Smalltalk system does not have an IDE, it does not support run-time modifications to the system, and it does not (yet) have graphics. But I still enjoy using it and find it worth using. The poll includes only one option that is close to my reasons for using Smalltalk.
It's ambiguous another way. Different Smalltalk systems have different IDEs and different libraries. The VisualAge IDE is different in a number of ways from Squeak & Pharo. So is Dolphin, but in a *good* way. Dolphin is easily the *prettiest* GUI/IDE around. The libraries are different too. The ANSI Smalltalk standard has been around a long time, and I *still* cannot open a file in a portable way. So when you ask about "Smalltalk", I have to ask "which?" VisualAge was designed to fit into the IBM commercial programming environment, and it does so admirably. On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 07:43, Richard Kenneth Eng <horrido.hobb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > https://smalltalk.tech.blog/2020/05/13/what-are-good-reasons-to-use-smalltalk/ > > > Please participate in the poll. >
