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From: abbott@aerospace.aero.org (Russell J. Abbott)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Organization of st80 programs
Message-ID: <57318@aerospace.AERO.ORG>
Date: 6 Sep 89 14:53:20 GMT
Reply-To: abbott@itro3.aero.org (Russell J. Abbott)
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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I have just started to write a serious(?) program using st80 and have
noticed realized that I don't know what capabilities are available for
organizing my code.  In this and the following message, I sketch my
questions and solicit any advice.

Most programming languages do not implement complete environments.  An
advantage of this "failing" is that the programmer is then free to use
Unix's capabilities and build arbitrary directory and file structures
that reflect the system's structure.  In st80, one's only (apparent)
organizational options seem to be (a) the class hierarchy and (b) the
class categories.  For a complex system these organizational options
appear far too limited.  How do real st80 programmers organize their
code?

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-- Russ abbott@itro3.aero.org