How to implement events on Unix?

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Sun Feb 11 00:09:20 UTC 2001


Stefan Matthias Aust <sma at 3plus4.de> wrote:
> At 23:42 08.02.01 -0800, Raab, Andreas wrote:
> >Well, from my point of view I'm just *way* more interested in personal
> >computing, media authoring and education. I don't think it's a bad sign 
> >that Squeak doesn't qualify as application server ;-)
> 
> Andreas, allow me to rant a bit on that statement.  I think, it's fine if 
> *you* only need a CPU-cycle-hungry desktop-centric graphical-playground 
> application.  However as one member of the Squeak central, you should also 
> consider other use cases and try to make the system as general-purpose as 
> possible.  This is what made languages like Python so big and 
> successful.  Actually, the big advantage of Python is IMHO that van Rossum 
> always concentrated on the core language and libraries without restricting 
> himself to a certain application.


Can you name something specific where SC is getting in the way of what
outsiders would like to do with Squeak?  It seems to me that Squeak is
extremely flexible and extensible.  And it's quite reasonable about CPU
usage!



-Lex





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