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		pjmlp on Dec 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Where Smalltalk Went Wrong (2004) Eclipse was Visual Age for Smalltalk reborn. I miss Visual Age for C++. Personally I think the biggest problem was the hardware requirements. If memory doesn't fail me, it already required 8 MB when most PCs were still being shipped with 4 MB. Also I think the version to go for was the OS/2 one, which didn't help as well. Vague memories now, so I don't recall how it really was.

dsbw on Dec 26, 2014 [–]

You are correct:

VAST was in Smalltalk. VAC++ was ALSO in Smalltalk. And the first VAJAVA? Also Smalltalk. They ultimately rewrote it in Java and it became Eclipse.

It required 8MB to be useful but 16MB (or more, which was unheard of) was preferable.

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