Squeak primitives
Tony Garnock-Jones
tonyg at lshift.net
Wed Aug 10 10:52:06 UTC 2005
> On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 03:57:01 -0700, Blake <blake at kingdomrpg.com> wrote:
>> 1. Isn't Smalltalk basically competitive with C#? Yeah, it's slower,
>> but not as much slower as, say, VB has been over the years. And it's
>> not nearly as slow as Python or Ruby, which are currently far more
>> popular.
Yes, it's fast enough for many applications, and of course applying the
technology developed for Self could make it directly competitive with C
or C++ for a number of applications.
>> 2. Doesn't Smalltalk have primitive strings, ints, bools, etc?
It does indeed, but only coincidentally as an optimisation provided by
most Smalltalk implementations.
Tony
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