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Just a guess, but: Squeak only uses text files as an export format, and that format is more verbose than file-based source code would normally be. If you only
by avibryant 17y ago
Just a guess, but: Squeak only uses text files as an export format, and that format is more verbose than file-based source code would normally be. If you only counted the code and not the metadata, it would probably do better.
- igouy 17y agoNot much - Smalltalk code is written in sentences not squiggles. The productivity comes from reading and re-using the code that has already been written rather than duplicating stuff.