Smalltalk, anyone?

y2kwizard · Post by **y2kwizard** » Sat Mar 01, 2003 1:37 pm

Hey, all. Recently I've been contemplating learning the programming language smalltalk. Has anyone here had any experience with this language? How useful is this compared to C++ or Java? Did you actually enjoy programming with it?

Thanks a lot!

Koopiskeva · Post by **Koopiskeva** » Sat Mar 01, 2003 1:37 pm

y2kwizard · Post by **y2kwizard** » Sat Mar 01, 2003 1:39 pm

Koopiskeva wrote:|:

Something wrong with Smalltalk? Is it an out of date language or something?

Brolli411 · Post by **Brolli411** » Sat Mar 01, 2003 1:58 pm

Never head of it... Is it a major language? .. Or better put, is it used in a lot of programs compared to Java and C++?

y2kwizard · Post by **y2kwizard** » Sat Mar 01, 2003 2:09 pm

Well, I haven't delved deep into the language yet, but apparently it's an object-oriented language that's more pure than Java or C++ in terms of OO programming. I imagine that some of the programming junkies that frequent The Org have heard of it...they might be able to provide better info than I can, for I've just started looking at it over the last few days.

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Sat Mar 01, 2003 2:37 pm

I think Java was based off of Smalltalk. Beyond that I have no experience or knowledge of the language.

y2kwizard · Post by **y2kwizard** » Sat Mar 01, 2003 3:38 pm

kthulhu wrote:I think Java was based off of Smalltalk. Beyond that I have no experience or knowledge of the language.

Well, a site that I've found veyr informative is http://www.whysmalltalk.com/

It looks like an interesting language...I wonder if it is actually as good as it claims to be.

Lyrs · Post by **Lyrs** » Sat Mar 01, 2003 5:33 pm

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"talk"

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RichLather · Post by **RichLather** » Sat Mar 01, 2003 10:14 pm

Yeah, I though this was what smalltalk was all about.

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Sat Mar 01, 2003 10:26 pm

likewise