"Smalltalk for C programmers"
Giovanni Giorgi
giovanni.giorgi at mlab.disco.unimib.it
Thu Feb 10 09:14:47 UTC 2000
Excuse me,
I'd like to have your opinion about a my small idea...
I think a book for learning Smalltalk from a C-language background would
help a lot the diffusion of
smalltalk way-of-thinking.
The reason are:
1. C language is broadly used.
2. C programmers who do not know C++ can have benefit form Smalltalk,
without having to learn C++ (which is a C with a little of objects
in it and same error-prone of C:)
3. Smalltalk is easy to understand even if you do not know OOP,
because it is the first O.O. language, have few concept and is
plain (=not as Java which is harder to understand, in my own
opinion)
4. Now there are free version of Smalltalk (Squeak, GnuSmalltalk,
Dolphin, VW5i) with a well defined library, and they are NOT toys
(java 1.0.2 perhaps can be considered a toy, with its little
library).
5. A good C programmers can became two-times productive (or more)
using Smalltalk instead of C....but someone must show this to
him...
6. No one seems has written a similar paper/book, as far I know...
What do you think?
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// Giovanni Giorgi mailto:giovanni.giorgi at mlab.disco.unimib.it
// Master Thesis at http://neptune.sal.disco.unimib.it:8080/platone/1
// Student (& exTutor) at Depart. of Computer Science of Milan, Italy.
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