We much appreciate the time taken by the following individuals to express their thoughts about Dolphin X6.
Blaine Buxton, United States
"At Zagreb Stock Exchange we are using Dolphin Smalltalk for development of our critical trading applications. They have been in everyday use for more than 6 years now and we can only be happy that we had the opportunity to work with such a great development tool."
Davorin Rusevljan (Head of Trading & Technology), Zagreb Stock Exchange.
"There is a lot of renewed interested in dynamic languages, from their ease at expressing domain specific problems, to their immediacy in developing working solutions. Smalltalk has always been the gem of dynamic languages; and this latest version of Dolphin absolutely blows your socks off! Its sexy tabbed browsers and code completion along with its many other features like refactoring tools, code mentor and built in unit testing, make this environment not only highly productive but also fun to use. Intelli-J, Visual Studio and Eclipse look out – Smalltalk is back!"
Tim Mackinnon (Innovation Facilitator), Thoughtworks
"As a small shareware author, I have used Dolphin Smalltalk to bring my programs quickly to the market while providing well rounded functionality at the same time. The ability to create small To Go executables that do not need complicated support libraries increased appeal of my applications to prospective customers. Lastly, the unlock key protection framework available with Dolphin, rounded off just about everything shareware authors might wish for."
D.R. Bytesmith, Croatia.
"For creating modern Windows applications, Dolphin Smalltalk is the most productive development environment I have used. It allows fast and easy access to Window's DLLs and COM components, and it produces small stand-alone executables. Development techniques such as refactoring and unit testing are fully integrated into the environment. When I have to use other mainstream development environments, I can see that they are catching up, but Dolphin still seems 10 years ahead of the mainstream curve. If I need to be at my most productive, I use Dolphin Smalltalk."
www.my-blood-pressure.com, Australia
"The Dolphin codebase is the either the best written large-scale piece of software I've worked with, or the largest well-written piece of software I've worked with."
Chris Uppal, UK
"For the newcomer and pro, Dolphin is the most comprehensive and best Smalltalk solution to develop software on Microsoft Windows® platforms. A genuine software masterpiece which encompasses more than 30 years of a mature technology such as Smalltalk. True Objects Technology, system reflexivity, dynamic binding, dynamic memory management, and support for today's mainstream technologies and methodologies such as Unit Testing, Code Refactoring, source code management, among others. Plus, the impressive and elegant coupling with the Windows® operating system which gives the developer complete access to the APIs and other services provided by the OS. Definitely it's the developer's choice for today and tomorrow using Windows®."
Esteban Maringolo, Smalltalk Developer, Argentina
"Dolphin Smalltalk is the primary development platform for our process simulation and reporting applications. I have come to depend up on its elegant advanced object oriented features, as well as an extremelysupportive user community, and very responsive support from Object Arts."
Christopher J. Demers, Mitchell Scientific, Inc., USA
"It is hard (for me) to put in words what I think about Dolphin ... it is like an old friend now :)"
Steve W, Australia
"I have been using Dolphin since 1999 and it is the most powerful development environment. You can persist your objects' domain in RDBMS or in active or passive ODBMS, and you can even combine these persistence systems, if necessary. Alternatively, you can develop your own persistence systems when required."
Bruno Buzzi Brasesco, Independent Consultant, Uruguay
"My company first began using Dolphin Smalltalk back in the days when it was version 2.1. We have found it to be a very clean smalltalk, tightly integrated to Windows development. It has a look, feel, and simplicity of use that is rivaled by none! Our internal systems are built entirely with Dolphin Smalltalk. We have also implemented many clients systems that utilized other windows specfic development tools and environments that were not as suited and useful for the task. On top of a well designed, and developed environment, we have discovered Dolphin to have an excellent library, not to mention the very supportive user community! Cheers for Dolphin Smalltalk X6 and Object Arts."
Steve Messamore, President, SMC, Canada
"My applications work with live data feeds, a bit like stock feeds but on different type of data. As these feeds are not continuously available, I can only properly test the applications with live feeds at certain days and times of the week. This is where the beauty of Smalltalk and the development tools of Dolphin Pro come in. As you can run the application in the development image, you have all the development tools like the Debugger, the Object Inspector and the Profiler at hand so that you can see step by step what happens when the live feeds come in. By actually running the live feeds through the profiler I could see exactly what the performance bottlenecks of my application were. While continuing to run the live feeds in the development environment I was able to refactor these bottlenecks and instantly see the performance difference. This only possible in image based development."
Ted Bracht, UK
"If you don't know where you're going, Dolphin will show you the path. Go Dolphin!"
Diego Park, Argentina
"I'm only a hobby programmer, but Dolphin 6 CE sparked an excitement I haven't felt in a long time; it really feels like I can work on the ideas I want to implement, instead of spending all my time framing them, which has been the frustration that's turned me off whenever I try picking up the latest fad language. Smalltalk, and Dolphin especially, feels right; in every other language I've had countless moments of 'Why can't I just...?' but in Smalltalk I just can."
Lief Clennon
"Smalltalk is dangerous. It is a drug. My advice to you would be don't try it; it could ruin your life. Once you take the time to learn it (to REALLY learn it) you will see that there is nothing out there to touch it."
Andy Bower. Object Arts Ltd. (1998)