'TO BE OR NOT TO BE' QUESTION
Andrew C. Greenberg
werdna at mucow.com
Mon Aug 26 01:11:58 UTC 2002
Let me give you the lawyer's answer: it depends. Requirements will
determine your answer.
Some thoughts that come to mind from your fragmentary remarks: If you
require CORBA, you will have to build your own remote corba interface,
so you might prefer a system that doesn't require you to do so. If you
require connectivity to databases for which Squeak doesn't already have
a plugin, likewise. If you require substantial cross-platform
compatibility, look carefully at Squeak. If you require access to all
the sources and the ability to rebuild the system to spec from the
ground-up, Squeak is free open-source, Cincom isn't.
On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 06:27 PM, Gustavo Pistoia wrote:
> Hi.
> Suppose you have to implement a commercial application. Should you
> use
> a commercial smalltalk or squeak?
> I have tried with Cincom Smalltalk and, I realize it comes with
> CORBA,
> Databases,
> and a lot of libraries. And also I tried doing '2000 factorial' and
> works
> faster
> than squeak. But also I know there are not as much messages as in
> squeak.
> What do you think or recommend?
> Thanks, bye.
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