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From: tk@cvl.UUCP (Tharakesh Siddalingaiah)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.graphics,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: looking for a useful object-oriented programming language
Message-ID: <1803@cvl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Nov-86 13:12:02 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 20 13:12:02 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Nov-86 23:06:29 EST
Organization: Center for Automation Research, Univ. of Md.
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Keywords: Smalltalk, Flavors, CommonLoops, PCs
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I'm looking for a powerful but fast object-oriented programming
language/environment for PCs.  This system needs to have very
complete graphics extensions and be able to run on one of two
machines.  The IBM PC/AT or the Atari 1040 ST.  Since, it is going
to be used for real-time processing/display over a high-speed
network, one of the over-riding consideration is speed.  The only
Smalltalk implementation on the PC that I have had a chance to use was
extremely slow because of the swapping of objects off of the hard-disk.
Given the presumption of many megabytes of real memory on the PC
which will run the o-o environment, what language would you people
choose to use?  Does anyone have any experience with Digitalk's
Smalltalk/V for the IBM PC?

-Eli Liang

(temporarily at tk@cvl.umd.edu or ...!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!tk)
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