Smalltalk and Python

[Erno Kuusela]

In article <Pine.BSF.4.10.10012122310510.48551-100000 at tcfreenet.org>,
Aaron Jon Reichow <reichowa at tcfreenet.org> writes:

| On 13 Dec 2000, Erno Kuusela wrote:
|| the thing that struck me as a little foreign was the apparent
|| isolation of the smalltalk image from the rest of the operating system
|| and the filesystem. i want to be able to grep code!

| While I'm not a proponent of Smalltalk isolationism, grep is a useless
| tool (more or less), simply an artifact, ye, a symptom of the
| sickness known as file-based development.

point was that it's valuable to me to be able to manipulate stuff via
the filesystem. version control, editors, access control, locking,
backups, and all the rest of the universe works with files (same
critique goes for zope).

| According to some benchmarks I've seen, Squeak is faster. ;P  (although it
| doesn't feel like it sometimes, with Morphic)

python needs to steal some implementation tricks from it then :)

  -- erno