A recent addition to the list of notable blogs is Peter Fisk’s VistaSmalltalk blog. This Canada-based, long-time Smalltalk hand has set about to explore the ways in which the venerable Smalltalk programming language can work with Microsoft’s .NET classes using the Windows Presentation Foundation.
Fisk’s goal is to influence people ready to consider Smalltalk as a potential option to Microsoft’s XAML-and-C#-or-VB.NET approach to building rich Web interfaces using Windows Presentation Foundation. At the same time, he sees Smalltalk as a useful alternative to the recently touted – highly touted, in fact -- combination of XML and JavaScript known as Ajax [or Atlas].
His efforts to create Vista Smalltalk, are described on his blog. He sees the .NET platform, replete with hundreds of thousands of methods that can be called, as an apt vehicle for Smalltalk. As he looked at WPF, he became interested in the notion that, if he could get Smalltalk to run within the WPF environment, “Smalltalk could run everywhere.”
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