On 30 Jun 2011, at 17:53, Janko Mivšek wrote: > Because I'm just working on asynchronous no-blocking node.js like > control flow in Aida, I can say that this is really natural to Smalltalk > with its closures, much more than so called callbacks in JavaScript. In > Smalltalk it is more readable and you hardly notice the difference to > the normal Smalltalk code, while in JavaScript those callbacks are a bit > hard to grasp and understand. From non seasoned programmer perspective, > that is.
Janko, that sounds promising, I would really love to learn more about your efforts. How do you do async IO without the select() system call ? As far as I know, that is not available as a VM primitive. Sven
