-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Frank Sergeant wrote: [...] > Could the regular users of GST describe how they go about developing and > debugging in GST?
Back when I used to do Smalltalk development I did it in traditional Unix style: vi (or possibly nedit in those days) and discrete program runs. Debugging happens with print. I'll admit that I've never been terribly happy with the Smalltalk browser big-pile-'o-code system of development. IMO, you lose all the meta information about how your code is organised, i.e. what file it's in and where in the file it is; it means that you can't put disparate code chunks next to each other. Of course, there are other categorisation systems such as, er, categories, but they never seem as useful to me. What's more, I generally distrust the business of developing code in an image. Without periodic resets and recompiles from scratch, you run the risk of ending up with unreproducible state in the image; for example, if your app built a data structure with code that you then removed, the image will still work but any rebuild will fail. (It's interesting to note that the professionals tend to serialize their images to CVS periodically --- typically daily --- and start each session with a fresh image. Which means that they are, to a certain extent, following traditional compile-run-debug methodology...) Of course, I come from a traditional Unix background, and tend to prefer the methodologies and programming styles that I'm used to. Enough enterprise-level Smalltalk code has been written using different methodologies that I'm sure it all works very well for people who are used to that. But that's not what you asked... - -- ┌── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ─── http://www.cowlark.com ─────────────────── │ │ "There does not now, nor will there ever, exist a programming language in │ which it is the least bit hard to write bad programs." --- Flon's Axiom -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGnqALf9E0noFvlzgRAhEVAKDbeEr3hKTe714rWWmrq2Z3HHOy/QCcDKE4 we8ao3lKj1hk3LuVOZvZ/tQ= =3Qhj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
