There are a group of us at Georgia Tech exploring something similar.  I
don't think that the computation abilities of Squeak are significantly
different than C++ (though, not being a Computational Scientist, I may be
missing important points).  But what Squeak offers as a unique strength is
the ability to create and prototype frontends to the acquisition and
analysis pieces.  For example, we have been playing with using MuSwiki to
provide shared access to large data sets or large simulations running on
external servers, and then to use the Viewer tools or the Components
framework to wire together analyses on these data sets.

We don't have a lot of results so-far.  We've got MuSwiki, and we've been
developing various Telnet-based tools to sit behind these front-ends.  And
we've written several rejected proposals so far to fund continued effort :-)

Mark

At 2:56 PM +0100 9/28/99, Pedro Gomes wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm involved in the development of a aquisition and data computation
>system in a research institute and was originally decided to use C++ to
>develop such complex system.
>
>I've been doing some experiments (fun!!) with Squeak for some time now
>and am considering the opportuinity to use version 2.5 for my project.
>
>My question is : Is Squeak fast and stable enougth to use in the
>development of such system..
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Pedro Gomes
>
>
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