"Smalltalk for C programmers": Conclusions

Marcel Weiher marcel at metaobject.com
Sun Feb 13 08:59:57 UTC 2000


> From: "Ian Trudel" <ian.trudel at tr.cgocable.ca>
>>
> Some have mention there was no bridge between C and Smalltalk. I am 
> wondering if, in pedagogical way, you could use Objective-C to  
"make the
> bridge" between C and Smalltalk. I'm not an Objective-C programmer, but 
> it could be interessesting to look at.

Yes.  It is easy to show C programmers how Objective-C is really  
just syntactic sugar for something they could have done in C, which  
is probably close to things they have been doing already.

Once you're there, you just remove a little syntax, add blocks and  
you're into Smalltalk.

Marcel





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