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Danny Ayers talks about scripting, and how Smalltalk doesn't really need a distinction between the "real stuff" and the scripts:
What 19s more Smalltalk doesn 19t need the distinction between a scripting language and 18the real stuff 19 - it 19s all the same language, available to the developer/user. Ok, Konfabulator and Dashboardhave got access to web functionality, but then so do most ST systems, in a considerably more transparent fashion.
What's interesting is that there doesn't need to be a separation between runtime and development time either - I've scripted BottomFeeder, for instance. This should get even better starting with the 7.3 release of VisualWorks (late November). Why? because we are going to push out support for a defined runtime environment - including support (on all platforms) for stdin/stdout). That should make things interesting.
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