Smalltalk-2000: SmallScript and Microsoft's ".NET" Platform
David Simmons (pulsar@qks.com)
David Simmons founded Quasar Knowledge Systems, Inc. (QKS) in 1989 to develop a next generation platform for integration of distributed Agent and Object technologies. For the last ten years he has been the lead architect on the development of the QKS Agents Object System (AOS(tm)) multi-language runtime and QKS Smalltalk for Macintosh, Win32, and most recently SmallScript(tm) consisting of the AOS Runtime Platform and a Smalltalk language superset for hi-performance scripting. Mr. Simmons has been an active member of the ANSI X3J20 Smalltalk standards group since its inception and over the years has pioneered many advances in Smalltalk and its language.