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From: dmilne@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Dave Milne")
Subject: Re: C++ / Smalltalk
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Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 22:22:24 GMT
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>Does anybody have any arguments for or against Smalltalk as a >good 
application development platform?.

Here's my tuppence worth for Digitalk's version, feel free to
contradict :-)

For: Small language, relatively easy to learn, quite a lot done
for you in terms of collections etc, quick to prototype,
good development and debugging environment, fun. I think it is the
best way to learn OOA/OOP.

Against: Digitalk's Windowing classes are a bit confusing, manuals
are crap, needs lots of memory, runs slowly, needs extensions like
Parts ( although included in version 3 which I don't have), damned 
expensive because of low volume.

Dave.
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dmilne@cix.compulink.co.uk is Dave Milne in Edinburgh, Scotland.
