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From: jeroen_pluimers@f521.n281.z2.fidonet.org (Jeroen Pluimers)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: programing
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Date: 1 Jun 91 18:33:03 GMT
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Reply-To: jeroen_pluimers%f521.n281.z2@hippo.dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Jeroen Pluimers)
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Comment-To: Peter_Schmidhofer@f1.n6000.z2.fidonet.org (Peter Schmidhofer)

Hello Peter!

In a msg of <26 May 91>, Peter Schmidhofer writes to jeroen pluimers:

 PS> Can you please describe the application development with Actor ? I
It is a kind of interactive and interpretive language, you build your 
application using an interpreter that precomiles your code. Then you save the 
p-code into an .IMA file and create your own .EXE file with all resources and 
the Actor p-code executor.

This means that for relative simple applications you have a .EXE of about 150k 
and a .IMA of about 100k. For larger applications this is not so much a 
problem. PS> don't have an impression of the language Actor uses. Are there
 PS> comparable languages or can you give a little example ?
I think only smalltalk with a very good class (object) library can come close.


jeroen