Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 25th Sep 2006 05:29 UTC
You've decided to expand your horizons. You've been programming exclusively in Java (or C++, or Perl, or Ruby) for a while now. You're happy and productive, but you have this nagging feeling that you're solving problems by rote rather than thinking as creatively as you once did. Learning a new language, especially one that forces you to re-examine some of your notions about software development, may be just the ticket.
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2005-07-11
"Instantations now is selling VA/Smalltalk 7.0 (with prices exceeding $5000) but I don't know if they offer trial or free versions of VAST."
Thanks for the heads up, I didn't know that VA had survived the IBM end-of-support.
From their web page, it seems that VA7 is pretty much IBM VA 6.0.3, feature wise. Fortunately, I downloaded the free for non-commercial use image of VA before IBM pulled it. I think it is at 6.0.1 though.
It was funny to see Window Builder Pro still selling, albeit for Java now. That was my second ever GUI buidling tool, after Gupta SQL Windows which was in turn the first time I had ever done event-driven programming.
Ah, nostalgia!