Greetings Squeakers,

 After playing about with it for essentially just a few hours, Squeak 
Smalltalk would appear to be a very possible answer to my needs but I have a 
couple or three quick questions.

1) Squeak seems horrendously slow. I can't help but wonder if I have left     
   out a compilation stage or something. Should the huge file of classes 
   called SqueakV3.sources be compiled or processed in some
   way if Squeak is to achieve full performance?

2) I am hoping to use Squeak in a control situation.
   Please could some kind soul direct me to a wisp of wisdom about
   interfacing between programs generated using Squeak and the o/s ( Linux,   
   if it matters ) drivers. There is a suggestion in the Mail-list archive   
   that this is possible, but the continuation of the thread seems to have    
   been lost.

3) After an application is written is it possible to generate a binary which  
    is directly launchable from the o/s in the normal way?

4) How can I interface with ordinary applications - an SQL database for 
    example.

Thanks a 10^6

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Sincerely etc.,

 NAME       Christopher Sawtell
 CELL PHONE 021 257 4451
 ICQ UIN    45863470
 EMAIL      csawtell @ xtra . co . nz
 CNOTES     ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/C/tutorials/sawtell_C.tar.gz

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