Smalltalk/X

FAQs - Free Smalltalk Environments

Smalltalk/X (ST/X) is a complete implementation of the Smalltalk programming language and development environment, providing:

• Object Oriented Programming Language
• Graphical Development Environment with Editors, Browsers, etc.
• Incremental Compiler and byte code interpreter.
• Extensive Class Library with ready-to-use building blocks for Applications.

The implementation of the language and the class library is consistent with the draft ANSI standard as well as the industry standard.

Optimised software development process

As a special and unique feature, ST/X provides both an interpretive development environment (with the consequence of very short turn-around times), and a true compiler, which translates Smalltalk classes into real machine code files. This gives you:

• possibility to create stand-alone applications without any image files;
• possibility to create compiled class libraries (dll's / shared libraries).
• easy integration of (possibly inlined) C-Code and linkage to external C-language libraries
• possibility to tune time critical functions using optimised inline C-code.

Therefore, Smalltalk/X combines the advantages of an interpreting system (short "turn-around" times in the development cycle of coding-testing-debugging), with the advantages of a compiled system (execution speed, code sharing in dll's, hardly decompilable). Smalltalk/X is a powerful platform for the development of robust and performant applications.

Availability

To date, ST/X is avalable for the following systems:

Upon request, we can provide versions for:

• Alpha OSF-1
• HP-UX 9.x
• HP-UX 10.x
• RealIX 88k
• SGI-IRIX
• SUNOS 4.0
• Unixware
• ULTRIX 4.3, 4.4
• Windows 95, 98, ME

Customer support

To ensure customer success, eXept Software AG provides education, training, mentoring and consulting during all project phases.

Licence

http://www.exept.de:8080/doc/online/english/LICENCE_STX.html