Re: [Pharo-project] Popularity or not of smalltalk?

[Jimmie Houchin]

On 12/7/2010 7:26 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote: Hear hear!! (specific responses below) On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Jimmie Houchin <jlhouc...@gmail.com> wrote: On 12/7/2010 5:38 PM, csra...@bol.com.br wrote: [snip] The biggest weakness for Smalltalk or at least our open source version in Squeak/Pharo IMHO is its integration, cooperation or access story to certain outside systems and technologies. And I speak as an end user who cannot develop a plugin, or use Alien or FFI and program in C.  In my situation for example. I have to interface to either a Windows dll or to a Java library to access financial servers. No choice. So I must choose a technology which can interface their technology. In my case, I chose to use Python to interface the Windows dll. I have written a minimal Python app which accesses the dll and thus the servers to access the data and my accounts. But the business logic I am writing in Pharo. The Python app simply provides my Pharo app the data and executes the actions directed by the Pharo app. Indeed.  An immature FFI, lack of dll options etc.  Integration is indeed one of the biggest weaknesses.  But we're making progress here.  So things may be different in months, if not years.  [snip] Thanks, I look forward to being able to port the Python portion to Squeak/Pharo. Well, I'll end my rant here and get back to being enabled in the development of my business app. Jimmie Thanks for these fine words Jimmie! You and everyone are most certainly welcome. I just couldn't hold it back anymore. :) Jimmie