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by igouy 1479 days ago
> I realise the state of the art must have moved on since the 1990s…

A few hours ago you told us "Envy/Developer was in heavy use where I worked" so you know that what you describe was not state of the art even back in the 90's.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31553494
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smackeyacky 1479 days ago
It certainly wasn't pushed by parcplace. They expected us to use change sets while their own package management was developed.

We ended up going direct to OTI at the time. It about tripled the licensing costs for a smalltalk seat. Due to the costs, it was uncommon in ST shops.

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igouy 1479 days ago
In the bygone days of commercial software tools, vendors sold their own products in direct competition with other vendors.

Presumably y'all paid so much more for Envy/Developer because that was state of art even back in the 90's; not what you described.

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