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Beyond the fact that I wouldn't use a language without a native code compiler, the worst obstacle seems to be that you can't integrate Smalltalk into ot
by WalterGR 11y ago
Beyond the fact that I wouldn't use a language without a native code
compiler, the worst obstacle seems to be that you can't integrate
Smalltalk into other OSs. You have to “boot” into a Smalltalk
universe and do everything in its terms.
All Smalltalk implementations work like this?
- rjsw 11y agoI think GNU Smalltalk is closer to how other languages work.
- david-given 11y agoThe other day I fired up GNU Smalltalk and did some basic scripting with it. I'd forgotten how nice a language Smalltalk is to work in, although the standard library is a bit archaic. There's a new (i.e. about five years old) syntax for defining an entire program in a text file; the interpreter loads the standard image and the compiles your script into it, which makes it very smooth to work with. Alas, I found at least one major bug in gst while writing my 50-line script.
- DougMerritt 11y ago> All Smalltalk implementations work like this? People are telling you about recent exceptions. The historical answer is "yes, all of them."