[ANSI-Smalltalk] what to work on first

[Ralph Johnson]

I was looking at the list at http://smalltalk.gnu.org/wiki/ansi-smalltalk

First, I know that people should work on the things that interest
them.  That will keep the energy up.  However, I want to work on
things that are easy and that have the potential to make big
improvements.  So, I want to propose something.

I think that one of the first things we should work on is a standard
for files and sockets.  The ANSI standard about files is not really
very serious.  I think it would be fairly easy to make a good standard
for file and network IO.  This would make programs more portable
without causing much trouble to vendors.  It would provide an early
success.

-Ralph