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by dannywoodz 6815 days ago
Yes, as long as 'building' includes 'extending and maintaining an application that's been in service for 12 years'.

The whole thing's a financial application written in Smalltalk, interfacing to pricing libraries written in C, with the same type of image working as both the desktop client and distributed compute node.

The Seaside web development framework (http://www.seaside.st) has attracted a lot of attention and there's a drive to push as much reporting through there as possible, but the day-to-day book and portfolio management looks to be desktop software for at least some years to come.