Trouble Getting adjusted to Smalltalk
Alan Mortensen
mortea at alum.rpi.edu
Tue Oct 23 03:28:08 UTC 2001
I'm having difficulties tinkering around with Smalltalk after being a
long term Java developer. My biggest problem is with typing (as in
class types)... how do you know what to pass methods? Often I see
parameter names like aRectangle.. so I guess that's clear.. but what if
it's something like aBounds..
I guess if more methods were documented it would be easier. All I know
is right now I'm having great difficulty using the available classes
without finding external documentation on a web page somewhere.
Oh as a side note, how is smalltalk doing these days usage-wise? I know
Java has blown up in usage and may outpace C++ soon, but Smalltalk has
just been chuggin' along since the early days. I had heard that up
until like 98 there had been steady growth but no one's been talking
about its marketshare since.
Alan
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