The purpose of this book is to introduce you to VAST Platform (VA Smalltalk), a product which enables you to quickly make client/server applications.

VAST Platform makes you more productive by providing interactive visual programming tools and a set of parts that represent the client/server spectrum. You create applications by assembling and connecting parts. In many cases, you do not even have to write code.

If you do need to write code, VAST Platform provides a state-of-the-art, integrated development environment. The programming language you use is Smalltalk, an industry-standard, highly productive, pure object-oriented language.