Why did no one invent Python before?

[Klaus Momberger]

j_mckitrick at bigfoot.com (j_mckitrick) wrote in message news:<ec6dce8b.0406030618.75b70a9c at posting.google.com>...
> > - much better development environment; you really don't know what you're 
> > missing until you've used smalltalk's browsers, inspectors and 
> > debuggers. It's the main thing I really, really miss in python.
> 
> I keep hearing about this Smalltalk IDE.  What is really the big deal,
> and why hasn't MS ripped it off?  I tried to find screenshots but
> couldn't.  I also applied for a demo download, but never heard back
> from the company.
> 
> jonathon

Cincom is offering a personal-edition of their product: 

http://smalltalk.cincom.com/downloads/index.ssp

then there is Smalltalk/X :  

http://www.exept.de/sites/exept/english/Smalltalk/frame_uebersicht.html

both of them are fully-fledged Smalltalks, not demos.

-klaus