Here's an old one, from May.

Before I go patching the code from Didier Besset's book to get it to run 
in Squeak, has this been sorted out already?

Thanks for any info

    ...Tom M

"David N. Smith \(IBM\)" <dnsmith at w...> wrote:
 > Helge:
 >
 > I used the Filing IBM Applications into Squeak to get the code 
'ported'. There were a few things, like differences in exception 
handling on Float computations, and differences in detecting IEEE Float 
problems, and I passed the code back to Didier to look at. I haven't 
heard since, but have a query in to him.
 >
 > I'll post any useful reply.
 >
 > Dave
 >
 >
 > At 2:51 +0200 5/15/01, Helge Horch wrote:
 > >At 20:38 14.05.2001 +0200, Heiko Schaefer wrote:
 > >>Did anyone make the code from Besset's book
 > >>
 > >>'Object Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods'
 > >>
 > >>Squeak-compatible? Its for Visual Age.
 > >
 > >I seem to recall Stephane writing that someone (David N. Smith?) 
ported most if not all of it.  I recommend asking Didier (didier at i...) 
about it.
 > >
 > >In the meantime, you might try the "Filing IBM Smalltalk Applications 
into Squeak" item at <http://www.dnsmith.com/squeak/index.html> and see 
if it helps.  Haven't tried it myself yet, though.

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 > >Cheers,
 > >Helge
 >
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