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From: MUHRTH@tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Muhr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Smalltalk source archives
Message-ID: <90164.094108MUHRTH@DB0TUI11.BITNET>
Date: 13 Jun 90 07:41:08 GMT
References: <1990Jun12.080731.20899@irisa.fr>
Organization: Technical University Berlin
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In article <1990Jun12.080731.20899@irisa.fr>, boissier@irisa.fr (franck
boissiere) says:
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>Hi there,
>
>I know it has been asked already but I lost the answer :-(
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>What the available archive sites for Smalltalk sources?
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>Thanks in advance,
>
>Franck
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You must be kidding! Despite all the talk about reusability, sharing real code
is a very rare thing to happen, compared to the sources archives for all the
other languages. There were some extraordinary pieces of code made available
in this newsgroup like the category browser for ST V/286 by Max Ott, Tokyo.
My opinion is, that despite the claims Smalltalk is another (excellent)tool for
the ideosyncratic programmer, not the tool for cooperate programming in teams.
One experience is, that it is very hard to share COMPLETE sources, because of
the sometimes radical changes in the system kernel, which you are enforced to
do! Max Otts Project-Category-Browser provides some advantage, but does not
eliminate the problems coming with the extreme dependencies between "modules".
Nevertheless the design advantages you get when using Smalltalk help to
live with the dark side.
Sorry for not havin answered your question properly, but I had the urge to
post this (maybe because I have some concrete problems ccordinating our
programming activities....!-), but maybe someone else will (I would be lucky
to get this kind of info too).
I will post some reusable sources in this group for Smalltalk V/286 within the
next weeks, there is some documentation still lacking for the public eye.
It will include: DAGPane extensions (arrows, labelled arcs, circular structures
Extended search routines (disjunctive wordwise search, macro definitions),
a really reusable IconPane implementation, titled menus, multiple choice menus.
So long -
Thomas
PS.: Has anybody already implemented a regular expression matcher in ST ?
     Well, we would need a STREP......
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