I was amused by the Smalltalk references. VisualAge for Java was actually written -IN- Smalltalk ( IBMs VisualAge Smalltalk ) and stored all source code -INSIDE- the Smalltalk VM ( and I believe used Envy, or an Envy like system for version control of your classes/methods ).
Other than being slower than a slow swing thing, the fact you didn't actually have .java files was an issue for a lot of people. You could "export" ( or file-out in Smalltalk terms ) the sources to .java files so you could at least commit into CVS, but it wasn't easy to do two-way version control there. -- Pull me down under... On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Lhasadad <lhasa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am I correct in my recollection that both NetBeans and Eclipse were > not originally projects started in Sun and IBM. I forget where NB > came from but think Eclipse came out of IBM picking up OTI. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
