Folding@home vs Smalltalk
A side-by-side look at Folding@home and Smalltalk. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
Folding@home
Science & Research
Folding@home is a distributed computing project that uses volunteer computing power for disease research. It simulates protein folding to help researchers better understand diseases like Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many cancers.
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Smalltalk
Development
Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, reflective programming language. It was designed for incremental code development and testing, featuring an integrated development environment, a file system, and a system command shell. It paved the way for many IDE features that are now common in other languages.
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