From: wys@... (Clemens Wyss)
Date: 2001-01-08T21:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8854] Re: Comparing Ruby and Smalltalk

chad fowler <chadfowler@yahoo.com> wrote in
<20010108111709.25562.qmail@web2302.mail.yahoo.com>: 
>In most languages, IDE/toolset is orthogonal to the
>language.  

I agree, but Smalltalk seems to be slightly different in the sense that
it (namely Smalltalk80) was "born" together with the browser. I.e.
"Smalltalk" always denoted the Smalltalk-language combined with its IDE
(browser). 

>That being the case, some might consider
>that Ruby lacks this browser to be a *feature*. 
>Because this means that there is no explicit tie
>between Ruby and a tool.  Of course, it would make a
>nice addition to the set of available tools for
>Ruby--but not the language itself.

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Clemens