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From: bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Smalltalk and C: A Case Study
Message-ID: <10424@reed.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 88 17:38:56 GMT
References: <5797@june.cs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <5797@june.cs.washington.edu> jmaloney@june.cs.washington.edu (John Maloney) writes:
> 	1. Development Time
> 	   Development time in Smalltalk was a quarter or less the
> 	   time for the same task in C....

I've written boatloads of C code and a reasonable amount of Smalltalk, and
my conclusions have been very similar to yours.  However note that point 1
really isn't too terribly indicative:  I've found that the second time I
write anything in any reasonable language it's likely to take me 1/4th or
less of the time :-)  The question that comes immediately to mind is what
would have happened if you'd coded first in Smalltalk and then in C??  But
please don't take this small nitpick as a criticism of a very well written
and informative article...

						Bart Massey
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