On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 12:08:11PM +0200, Alexander Klein wrote:
> 2. I got the impression that Squeak (Or is it Smalltalk in general?) is a
> little limited as far as floating point numbers are concerned. Is this
> really the case, and if so, what can I do to get the equivalent of doubles
> or long doubles?
>
The Float class implements EEE-754 floating-point double-precision numbers.

> 3. Since I'm used to reading plain text files, I found the system browser
> really confusing. Also, although I think I understand the general ideas, I
> have a really hard time reading Smalltalk source. Is there anything like
> 'Smalltalk in two weeks for C++ programmers'?
> 
There is a tutorial by Giovanni Giorgi for Java programmers:

  http://daitanmarks.sourceforge.net/or/squeak/squeak_tutorial.html

  Marcus

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