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Visual Age for Smalltalk For Non-Comm Use

Posted by Hemos on from the you-can-get-it-if-you-want-to dept.

paugq writes " IBM has released Visual Age 6.01 for Smalltalk for free for non-commercial use. You can download it here, it's available for Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, etc (registration needed). Smalltalk is a dynamically typed object oriented programming language designed at Xerox PARC during the 1970s"

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  1. Visual Age Smalltalk by kzadot · · Score: 5, Informative
    This is great news, smalltalk is one of the original "pure" OO languages. The OO extensions in Objective C are based on smalltalk.

    For those of you who have up until now been using Squeak, may be interested in upgrading to a more serious tool, now that its available.

    More info here. Sorry, couldnt find any screenshots.

  2. Other Smalltalk's available for *nix by Lord+of+the+Fries · · Score: 5, Informative
    There are other Smalltalk flavors available for *nix platforms as well.


    I've used 'em all, each has its strengths and weaknesses, depending on what you're trying to do. They're all Smalltalk though, and that makes 'em great!
    --
    One man's pink plane is another man's blue plane.
  3. Re:Who says this is free for non-commercial use? by SeaGK · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the License:

    You may 1) use the Program only for internal evaluation or testing purposes (emphasis mine) and 2) make and install a reasonable number of copies of the Program in support of such use, unless IBM identifies a specific number of copies in the documentation accompanying the Program. The terms of this license apply to each copy you make.

    so, No, it is not FREE it is only gratis (no money) for testing.
    You should give it a try though, .... i tried version 1.0 long time ago and it was a very nice IDE.