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Most of the Collections and Streams are compatible and a lot of base stuff

The real divergence is in anything dealing with the underlying OS; both GUI and File IO. Since each Smalltalk was written to fit a different sort of problem from a different philisophical direction, they have differen tways of implementing the relationship with their environment.

Which is actually a good thing. Dolphin and Visualworks have different goals they try to attain, so they have different ways of meeting those goals. So the developer can choose the approach that makes more sense for their own particular problem
Jay O'Connor

"Going places unmapped
to do things unplanned
to people unsuspecting"
New Many incompatible but perfectly finely-tuned answers...
will lose in the end to a worse answer that works in many situations.

This is the basic message of Worse is Better. There are many features which are better per developer or per project, but are worse per community. Creating ideal environments at the cost of fragmentation has been a classic issue for languages like Lisp. By contrast languages like C and Perl, clearly much worse in many ways, do a better job with that and benefit on the whole from it.

The fact that Smalltalk provides the custom answer you really want on your project is not at all inconsistent with the failure of Smalltalk to realize the potential that its supporters believe possible.

Cheers,
Ben
     Got Smalltalk code to publish, but how? - (Arkadiy) - (12)
         Re: Got Smalltalk code to publish, but how? - (Fearless Freep) - (4)
             Re: Got Smalltalk code to publish, but how? - (Arkadiy) - (3)
                 Re: Got Smalltalk code to publish, but how? - (Fearless Freep) - (2)
                     Confusing was too gentle a word... -NT - (Arkadiy) - (1)
                         AS in "I don't like it... - (Fearless Freep)
         This is one of Smalltalk's great failings IMO - (tuberculosis) - (6)
             Not really - (Fearless Freep) - (5)
                 Re: Not really - (wharris2) - (1)
                     Wrong - (Fearless Freep)
                 Thats one of the other ones - (tuberculosis) - (2)
                     Actually.. - (Fearless Freep) - (1)
                         Many incompatible but perfectly finely-tuned answers... - (ben_tilly)

Do we really have to hide from da cops in da oven, Muggsy?
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