Hi,<br>  I was talking to one of my Professors about Squeak the other day and I got an mail asking:   <br><br>&quot;I had lunch with several of the other CS faculty yesterday and I brought up your enthusiasm for smalltalk, which I&#39;ve never used. Some of the faculty panned it because they claimed the I/O features were either poor or nonexistent. [Java will never be displaced as the first language at ............] What is your impression of the I/O abilities of smalltalk? There is much discussion about the need to learn a language with OOP features before Java.<br>
<br>I&#39;m still a novice and I actually haven&#39;t been able to play with squeak much lately do to other classwork..so rather than blow an opportunity for squeak I thought I&#39;d ask here and see what the pros say.<br>
wfpi<br>