FYI: what I'm working on (was "Smalltalk and CORBA")
Bruce Cohen
cohenb at gemstone.com
Thu Dec 10 19:55:47 UTC 1998
Craig Latta <Craig.Latta at NetJam.ORG> writes:
>> I've done a bunch of stuff for a system which forked from Squeak a while ago, in a private corporate project. I am now at liberty to release some of it. I have some new interests, too. This message got long, so taking a cue from Ford Prefect I'll just sum up...
>>
>> [in estimated order of appearance]
>>
>> (near release)
>> scoped closures
>> complete exceptions support
>> new streams
>> net correspondents
>> event-driven I/O
I'm very interested in the streams and especially the event-driven
I/O. How well is the event I/O integrated with the current input (e.g.,
does it come through InputSensor)? This is an area I'm interested in,
because I want to allow multiple input devices to control different
processes concurrently.
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