[Newbies] Re: Re: Why hasn't Smalltalk been wildly accepted?

[Michael Kohout]

Thanks for the tip Klaus.

I'll definitely be able to use this on my desktop mac, but it still
doesn't overcome my problems of getting at the company's oracle
databases.  Maybe when I get home today, I'll dust off my nonworking
plugin and ask for help on the vm list( while the docs for squeak
suffer, all the user's help has been really great ).

Mike Kohout
Developer
www.mnscu.edu

On 8/10/06, Klaus D. Witzel <klaus.witzel at cobss.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:43:46 +0200, Michael Kohout wrote:
>
> > When I get home(and if the weather isn't too nice) I play with Squeak.
> >  But when I go to work, I write Java(like a lot of people on this
> > list, I'd imagine).
>
>   8-)
>
> > One of the things that prevents me from even considering it at work is
> > the lack of Oracle driver support.  Of course, I could write that
> > support myself using named primitives(and I've tried), but the
> > documentation on how to use all the modern Slang features and tie the
> > whole thing into XCode is much too sparse.
> >
> > When this changes I might be able to use squeak for more than just
> > amusement.
>
> Michael, have you seen the SQLite3 package on SqueakMap. It is more than
> easy to interface an external library from Squeak, no Slang, no C-compiler
> needed (if you don't depend on callbacks). The SQLite3 Squeak code is
> authored for calling into an external library on Mac OS X but it's a
> matter of minutes to change that to MS$ windoze or linux (I know that
> you're using Squeak on OS X...)
>
> Hope that it's a rainy day at your site ;-)
>
> /Klaus
>
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