Kujawa, Greg
4/8/2005 12:49:00 PM
I have been working with Ruby for about 6 months now and love it. Coming
from languages like C++ and Java the leanness and logic of Ruby is nice.
Smalltalk is something I haven't had the opportunity to work with. I have
downloaded the non-commercial Cincom Smalltalk ISO and am installing it now.
I have read that it comes with its own native GUI toolkit and other things.
Is Smalltalk as comprehensive and powerful as Ruby in terms of Ruby's many
additional packages and bindings (e.g. - DBI, winole32, win32api, Tk, GTK,
Qt, SMTP, POP, SSH, HTTP, etc.)?
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Suk [mailto:peter.kwangjun.suk@mac.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 6:40 PM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: Seven new VMs, all in a row
On Apr 7, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Glenn Parker wrote:
> So, what are the potential platforms for Ruby on a Smalltalk VM?
Squeak alone has been ported to 32 platforms, running in all of them
bit-identically, including Acorn Risc, WinCE, Mac OSX, Mac System 9,
Windows, Linux, various Unixes. There is a Smalltalk VM for PalmOS.
(slow, though) The first target, VisualWorks, runs on 8 platforms,
including Various Windows, WinCE, Mac 8, Mac 9, Mac OSX, HPUX, AIX,
IRIX, Solaris-SPARC, Linux x86, Linux SPARC, Linux PPC.
--Peter
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