Yes, integrating data from different models and systems a major
strength of Smalltalk.

And what Phil described on Cuis list on the 24th of July

He uses Smalltalk for

1. data processing
Lots of importers and exporters.  The data I need is
all over the place both on my local filesystem/network as well as from
various Internet sources in just about every format ....


2. visualization/simulation
Visualization/simulation: often I'm not just doing a simple data
conversion, so once the data is in Cuis I might need to do some analysis
to see what I'm dealing with, generate some charts/graphs, visualize
relationships within a data set or the results of a simulation, etc. ......

3. prototyping.
Prototyping: most of the 'production' code I'm dealing with is in
other languages (Java for Android apps as an example). However, I find
non-dynamic languages unpleasant to prototype in.  So I find myself
quite often playing around with my ideas in Cuis even though the
implementation target might be a different language/environment.....

--Hannes

On 7/30/15, Craig Latta <craig at netjam.org> wrote:
>
>      Eliot writes:
>
>> I found an interesting nugget at the end of [1] which is the need to
>> integrate data models in different databases. “If your application is
>> managing what you want to think of as a single database which is in
>> fact spread over multiple engines,” says Stonebraker, “with different
>> data models, different transaction systems, different everything,
>> than you want a next-generation federation mechanism to make it as
>> simple as possible to program.”
>>
>> This would seem to play to Smalltalk's strengths.
>
>      Yes indeed!
>
>
> -C
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> [1] https://tinyurl.com/o7nmvnv (forbes.com)
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