Re: [Pharo-project] Interaction with Java

2008-12-12 Thread Norbert Hartl
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 16:08 -0300, Alexandre Bergel wrote: Dear List, Something is trotting in my head for few weeks. According to the mails exchanged on this list, it seems that interacting with C is of a high priority. I was wondering whether you had a similar need for talking to

Re: [Pharo-project] Interaction with Java

2008-12-12 Thread Alexandre Bergel
Hi Bill! Does that help? I'm trying to encourage you without overestimating the size of the market. Yes it does. Even if I am not surprise with your experience, thanks for sharing. The ubiquity of the JVM makes it a very appealing platform. For example, people from Ambienttalkt [*]

Re: [Pharo-project] Interaction with Java

2008-12-12 Thread Alexandre Bergel
Use case SE: The standard edition approach will make use of the ScriptHost extension that comes with Java 6. Being able to script any java application with smalltalk would be just wonderful. I'm working wih rhino (mozillas javascript engine in java) at the moment and it is really

Re: [Pharo-project] Interaction with Java

2008-12-11 Thread Bill Schwab
Alexandre, C has a fairly unique place among languages. We could debate how far that goes and the reasons for it, but a few that come to mind are: it arrived a long time ago; it was widely adopted; *nix lives by it. Pharo has to speak it. In most situations where I have used Dolphin's COM