C is fastest
Yanni Chiu
yanni-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 15 16:43:13 UTC 2009
Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> This smalltalk environment sounds similar to the Ruby's Interactive
> shell (IRB).
It's well known in the Smalltalk community that Ruby is really Smalltalk
with a different syntax, along with a re-introduction of files to store
dead code. However, it seems that these two factors are crucial for
programmers who've grown up with C-like function call syntax, and a file
edit/compile/execute mentality.
Another feature "lost" was a native windowing interface. The Smalltalk
GUI is what Steve Jobs saw when he visited Xerox PARC, then went off to
create Apple Computer. It's kind of sad that Java/Eclipse and Ruby/IRB
are re-inventing the wheel.
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Yanni
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