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- Subject: Re: which IDE ?
- From: Florian Weimer <fw@...>
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:04:55 +0100
* Jacques Chester:
> Smalltalk has something similar -- the IDE is, in a sense, the
> program.
>
> The downside is that these self-contained universes make clean
> deployment and versioning that much harder.
Matz attributes much of the success of Ruby (compared to Smalltalk) to
the decision to give up the image. I find this a remarkable insight,
and I think it's likely true.
