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- From: alford@alc.com (Mack Alford)
- Subject: Re: OOPS-62: Evening Meeting
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.231902.10202@alc.com>
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- Organization: Ascent Logic Corporation
- References: <7181@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:19:02 GMT
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- In article <7181@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> bernardh@cs.man.ac.uk (Bernard Horan (MIG
- group)) writes:
- >
- > Evening Meeting: OOPS-62
- >
- > A Debate on the motion:
- > "Smalltalk is viable for developing large systems"
- >
- >Is Smalltalk just a toy? Can you really use it to build the kind of large
- >systems required today? We aim to find out! The Smalltalk object-oriented
- >programming environment is the purist's dream but some argue that its very
- nature precludes it use for serious development. This debate brings this
- >important issue out of the closet. Opening speaker for the motion will be:
- >
- > Romilly Cocking
- >
- > Managing Director of Smalltalk distributors Cocking & Drury
- > and an experienced consultant to major Smalltalk users. He
- > says "Smalltalk has now taken first place in the list of
- > languages used by corporate O-O developers, and there are
- > good reasons for this".
- >
- >
- >Leading the attack will be
- >
- > Richard Daley
- >
- > Senior partner of Richard Daley Associates and an expert on
- > software engineering and CASE. Richard says about Smalltalk:
- > "It's a do-or-die approach, unlikely to succeed with large
- > systems".
- >
- >
-
- No one from Ascent Logic will be able to attend, but please be advised that
- the RDD-100 System Designer is a large (we think the largest) commercially
- available Smalltalk based too. An image without data runs about 6MB on top of
- the Smalltalk image size of 2MB for a total of about 8 MB. This is obviously
- larger than a "toy".
-
- Other information available on request.
-
- Regards,
- Mack Alford
- Chief Scientist, Ascent Logic Corp
- alford@alc.com
-
-