Collection interfaces

[topmind]

"Troy Brumley" <t*b*r*u*m*l*e*y at f*u*s*e.n*e*t> wrote in message
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> in article 3AB8A730.4BE13D22 at mail.com, James A. Robertson at
> jarober at mail.com wrote on 3/21/01 8:06 AM:
>
> > topmind wrote:
> >>
> >
> >>> http://www.cincom.com/smalltalk
> >>>
> >>
> >> I only see a front page, not a parsing example.
> >>
> >
> > Follow the tutorial link - it's right there on that page.
> >
> >
> >> Besides, what are you comparing it to so say
> >> it is better than a procedural/relational approach?
> >
> > It's vastly easier than similar code done in C or basic, for example
>
> User testimonial here ... last week I had to rip thorugh a pile of IIS
logs
> to get some statistics for some people, and I used the original (non-gui)
> tutorial code as a starting point. I was once again impressed with how
much
> easier it was to do several common data processing tasks in Smalltalk than
> it was in Assembly language or C or Pascal.
>

Give me specific requirements and I bet I can match it on code size.

C, Pascal, and Assembly are hardly what I would use for code-size
contests.

Of course, there is more to comparing than code size, but those often
get very subjective or fuzzy.

> I'm a long time procedural type, learning to really think in and use
> Smalltalk has been an interesting experience.
>
> I've also done a lot of database "fixing" and Smalltalk has usually beat
out
> raw SQL for anything but the most trivial tasks.
>

Fixing what? SQL is not good at string parsing.

> All that said, I think it's the environment (interactive) that improves
the
> experience as much as the language itself. If I had a reasonable
> interpretive BASIC environment available, I could probably do many of the
> things I did in Smalltalk almost as easily ... certainly more easily than
> with C.
>

I find interpretive environments potentially more compact code-wise than
static ones.

>
> >
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>>> [snip]
> >>>>
> >>>> -tmind-
> >>>> oop.ismad.com
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> James A. Robertson
> >>> Product Manager (Smalltalk), Cincom
> >>> jarober at mail.com
> >>> <Talk Small and Carry a Big Class Library>
> >>>
>