From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: Tore Lund Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1996/12/28 Message-ID: <32C589DC.189D@sn.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 206460273 references: <32A4659D.347A@shef.ac.uk> <32B81DA7.6D08@deep.net> <59vr2s$55r@masters0.InterNex.Net> <5a0niaINNlda@topdog.cs.umbc.edu> <32C43AC8.24E2@sn.no> <32C557F6.532C@rase.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: SN Internett mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: tl001@sn.no newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Date: 1996-12-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Tansel Ersavas wrote: > > >> Yes, why? The most important reason is that most programmers don't know >> assembler or bother to learn it well enough to write decent code in it. > > I don't really think that you need to know assembler to develop good > compact systems. You are quite right, but my comment was an answer to the question of why it's hard to write and maintain programs in assembler. > In fact, we recently developed one of the most useful > visual development tools in existence. It is written in Smalltalk, and > developed in record time. The SLL of our VSE version is under 300KB > before compression. In fact, there was a debate in our company that if > we distributed our product in one floppy, nobody would take it > seriously, there were serious suggestions to bump it up to offer in > several floppies or offering a CD-ROM version only. Fascinating. And thanks for telling us. If you have the time, please add a comment about the execution speed of this Smalltalk system. Regards, Tore -- Tore Lund