From: Chris Gehlker
Subject: Re: Protoype in one language, then code in another?
Date: 
Message-ID: <BA59F893.25D21%gehlker@fastq.com>
On 1/26/03 9:16 AM, in article ······················@news.esedona.net,
"Mark Watson" <·····@markwatson.com> wrote:

> This may sound odd, but I found myself recently
> using VisualWorks Smalltalk to get something tricky
> working that had to be written ultimately in another
> language (Java).
> 
> I used to also do this occasionally in Lisp (e.g.,
> in the 1980s, I prototyped all 12 of the SAIC ANSim
> neural network paradigms in Lisp, then rewrote
> everything in C for Windows 1.0).
> 
> Perhaps I just have odd work habits, but I was
> wondering if other people do the same sort of thing?

I actually do this sort of thing pretty often. Once I even took a nice
little C++ simulation and turned it into 22 linked Excel spreadsheets. That
was to resolve a lawsuit.



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