Le Jeudi, 14 Janvier 2010 19:57:53 -0500, waufrepi III waufrepi@gmail.com a écrit :
"I had lunch with several of the other CS faculty yesterday and I brought up your enthusiasm for smalltalk, which I've never used. Some of the faculty panned it because they claimed the I/O features were either poor or nonexistent. "
I do not know much Squeak at the moment, but I do know computer systems and other programming languages. If they ask for Input/Output performance it must be because this is a embedded course where such things matters ? Or maybe they are running very, very slow computers in their classes on which traditional developing is slow (eg. compiling takes forever for the example code) ?
I remember being curious once in the past about Smalltalk. So I ended up with about 30 5 1/4" floppy disks that I would load one after the other in a 8MHz 8086 with some 640 KB RAM... To end up seeing after maybe 15 minutes the beginning of a user interface. That surely is not the case today with Squeak on any modern PC.
In short, what do they mean with I/O ?
Al