I know, I still use it, along with VA Java and VA C++ (the COBOL I can live without, tbh).
I use them largely for prototyping, and when I need to do weird things like creating micro VM’s with cross VM client/server software in order to create enough traffic to test things like monitoring virtualized Cisco routers. They’re also damnably fast on a modern machine, lol. I have one laptop with OS/2 v. 5, an i5 with 16GB RAM. It just flies. VA Java with Java 1.4.2 makes it easier to create reliable Java than any other Java IDE I’ve used. Much of the syntactic parmesan that’s been added to Java since only hurts reliability (by hiding what you’re actually doing) and makes stack traces useless. 1.4.2 was stable compared with earlier versions, but didn’t have the issues that started coming in with Java 5 based on the need to ‘keep up’ with features in other languages. Btw, try writing a CORBA app without VA Java and VA C++ … Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Marten Feldtmann Sent: Monday, November 6, 2017 3:52 AM To: Any question about pharo is welcome Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earning alivingfromSmalltalk Am 06.11.2017 um 09:36 schrieb Andrew Glynn: > They did just release 5.0 in June, lol. > VisualAge Smalltalk 6.01 for OS/2 is still running without any problems ... Marten -- Marten Feldtmann
