What are the key advantages of IBM Smalltalk?
IBM Smalltalk is a very robust Smalltalk that is based on industry standards such as POSIX for filing systems and MOTIF for GUI. It is also based on the proposed common Smalltalk standard that was submitted to the X3J20 committee for making Smalltalk recommendations to ANSI in 1993. IBM Smalltalk contains a wide range of functions spanning more than 1100 classes in IBM Smalltalk and over 2500 classes in VisualAge for Smalltalk. IBM Smalltalk enables robust portability. Unlike other portable implementations that emulate objects on various platforms, IBM Smalltalk applications automatically take on the look and feel of target platforms by using the native platform widgets. Unlike simple check-in/check-out library systems, IBM Smalltalk team support includes an object-repository, true version control, and configuration management capabilities. Do you have a vendor program similar to Digitalk’s and Powersoft’s that encourages third party vendors to build parts that can be utilized with Vis