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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: asmang@CRAZYSPAMmail.wm.edu (Arun Mangalam) Subject: Re: College, C, etc. Date: 1998/10/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 406285881 References: <6skfs7$2s6$1@hirame.wwa.com> <35F252DD.5187538@earthlink.net> <6t4dge$t8u$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6t5mtp$4ho$1@news.indigo.ie> <35FFE58C.5727@ibm.net> <3600E72E.24C93C94@cl.cam.ac.uk> <6ts1q0$vo2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <361DBC60.C153BBAD@earthlink.net> <36228EC3.4F7381FD@domain.nul> <3630b064.23189339@news.supernews.com> <3630C8DC.DF508803@fv.com> <3634DC76.57788481@fv.com> <3638548E.5CB0@dmu.ac.uk> X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com X-Trace: duCgParZwpomgM/Yn6x9HNkG8BOWACXRJ69bx0YVTQQ= Organization: William & Mary Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3638548E.5CB0@dmu.ac.uk>, gperkins@dmu.ac.uk wrote: >Darren New wrote: >> > It sounds like there might an interesting story in that. >> > Would you be willing to post (or email) it? >> >> Sure. The advisor in question wanted to draw pictures of communicating >> finite state machines Basically, he wanted to animate Estelle programs, >> which are formal descriptions of network protocols... The other student >> trying to do this was using C and XLib,... >> ...I wrote a smalltalk program in a >> week that would draw a state machine animating, consuming it's input >> string and creating it's output string. The prof was sufficiently blown >> away at the apparent ease > >similar story here. My colleague is putting together a clothing >design tool with some heavy maths software in the background >that attempts to capture and reason about design ideas. She >struggled a bit with the Smalltalk interface paradigm to start >with, but gave a demo to her research colleagues last week. They >were sufficiently impressed that they thought it was just a >mock-up! > >(her gains are due to ease of creating and testing the >domain model, and low coupling benefits from GUI style >that allows her to rapidly flash up different form and >graph tools and keep them all synchronised) > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Graham Perkins, De Montfort University, Milton Keynes >http://www.mk.dmu.ac.uk/~gperkins/ Is Objective C a lot like smalltalk? I heard it is really easy to program for and understand? I am posting this here because I am pretty sure those in this newsgroup choose their language based on well-thought out decisions. -- asmang@CRAZYSPAMmail.wm.edu remove the CRAZYSPAM to reply. These spamming buggers are really annoying.