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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