Hi,
Yes, I agree. I wasn't putting down SIXX - I was more cheerfully noticing that someone remembered the good old chunk format! We sometimes forget that Smalltalk (the language) can be used for these things. And you avoid the burden of "yet another language to master".
Yes. I agree with that. Sometimes we tend to use some buzzword languages only because they are thought to be cool.
For example, SqueakMap needs no XML package to do it's logging and since I use the protocol in the class SqueaMap it is very compact and domain specific. And I don't really "serialize" anything.
Domain specific way is the most powerful (and simple) way to achieve functionalities. On the contrary, generic way is somewhat complicated but provides flexibility if applied appropriately.
So, we always have to consider and select the right direction. ;->
--- [:masashi | ^umezawa]