On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 03:16:05 +1100, Mark Watson 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).
...
> Perhaps I just have odd work habits, but I was wondering if other people
> do the same sort of thing?
I did this when I was adding TIFF handling to the PDF library. I had to
deliver the work in Java, but I solved all the problems and did all the
learning by writing Smalltalk. Only when the Smalltalk version was
working did I port the code to Java. I beleive that doing this saved the
client quite a bit of time and money.
It makes sense to prototype in the fastest environment first!
Bruce Badger <············@badgerse.come.com> wrote in message news:<···································@badgerse.come.com>...
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 03:16:05 +1100, Mark Watson 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).
> ...
> > Perhaps I just have odd work habits, but I was wondering if other people
> > do the same sort of thing?
>
> I did this when I was adding TIFF handling to the PDF library. I had to
> deliver the work in Java, but I solved all the problems and did all the
> learning by writing Smalltalk. Only when the Smalltalk version was
> working did I port the code to Java. I beleive that doing this saved the
> client quite a bit of time and money.