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- From: campbell@src.honeywell.com (Terry Campbell)
- Subject: Re: smalltalk rather than C++?
- In-Reply-To: rpomeroy@aunext3.amd.com's message of Wed, 18 Nov 92 14: 45:28 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov17.234103.18231@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:19:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.144528.1674@dvorak.amd.com> rpomeroy@aunext3.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop)) writes:
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- >> In article <1992Nov17.234103.18231@macc.wisc.edu> wisplan@vms.macc.wisc.edu
- >> (Shaun Abshere) writes:
- >>
- >>Situation: I'm embarking on a new project and would like to make use of OOPS
- >>technology. I'm a C programmer (mostly) and have read a little about C++.
- >>My project deadline is about 7 months from now. Is it realistic to try to
- >> learn
- >>Smalltalk then develop a project in this short a time, as opposed to staying
- >>with a syntax I know well and doing it in C++?
- >>
- >>Next question: my project will involve some more-or-less standard menus and
- >>forms, but in many places I'll be prompting for free-form narratives of
- >>indeterminate length. I want to avoid spawning an editor because I need full
- >>control of storage and validation of the contents of the buffer when the
- >>user is done with a section of the report (the project is a report generator;
- >>the report is scanned by another program later using section headings which
- >>my program will spit out, very tight syntax). I can imagine creating a simple
- >>editor from something like the Borland Turbo Editor Toolbox and wiring the
- >>output to a specific file, and on return from the spawn i just open that file
- >>and read the contents, but this seems clumsy and ugly. I DON"T want to write
- >>an editor from scratch. If there are editor tools available that I could use
- >>to creat a built-in simple editor (PgUp PgDn, Cut, Paste, maybe string
- >>search) and I could let the editor worry about memory management, I would be
- >>happy indeed. Editing text will be at the heart of the program, if
- >> SmallTalk/V
- >>can provide a way out of this dilemma that might be the key to which language
-
- No problem (at least with V Windows). The build in editor suppoirts all the
- required capabilities and can be easily extended. You can poup editors, have
- them resident in user window etc. You can build the check routines into
- Smalltalk or pass to a C function (DLL) as you wish. If you know how to write
- DLLs in C you can use C where you wish etc.
-