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I have a note over at my Curl blog that Web Velocity is now available. So “Borges” for Ruby should look out even if running on rubinious …

Actually, CINCOM’s framework will likely see adoption in the enterprise (in recent years, financials) and Ruby on Rails remain the small ISV temptation that it already is … and no, Smalltalk is not dead: just look at the CINCOM client list.

Nor is PROLOG dead. One of the vendors simply chooses to mention their software and their clients, not their language. Competitive advantage, I suppose. What Seaside has done for Smalltalk we may yet see Logtalk do for PROLOG.

As for Curl, there should be an announcement soon …

Over at my LogiqueWerks blog I posted a note on Squeak Smalltalk on the iPhone.

In that interview John McIntosh mentions Esteban Lorenzano working on a limited Squeak called Mars to run as an MVC framework on Mac Cocoa.

I will try to keep an eye on this Mars project …

As reported in an interview on InfoQ, Smalltalk has arrived on the iPhone. The irony is that until now JavaScript or Objective-C were the options for programming the Apple iPhone or the iPod Touch. But JavaScript was in part the work of the StrongTalk Smalltalk team and came out of second-generation Smalltalk or Self. And Objective-C, like Ruby or Io, is Smalltalk for programmers who, well, aren’t working in Smalltalk.
Now to see if CINCOM VisualWorks Smalltalk arrives as a commercial option for the iPhone.
In the meantime, Smalltalk continues to evolve with the revival of Slate as Clean Slate Smalltalk. We have come a long ways since the case against a VM with bytecode was the case against Smalltalk – and not very far at all.
But is Smalltalk still an option for the Whirlwind/Vortex project out at WASP?
More to follow …

For info on Seaside, click here.

For info on Squeak Smalltalk on the iPhone, click here.