[ANSI-Smalltalk] what to work on first

[John O'Keefe]

I agree that files, sockets, (and streams since they relate strongly
to both) are a good starting point for the next revision of the
standard.

One way to judge what we should work on first is to ask cross-dialect
feature developers what gives them the most pain.  What areas of
standardization would make Seaside, Glorp, Aida, Refactoring Browser,
Toothpick, etc. easier to port?

John

On Nov 16, 2007 8:24 AM, Ralph Johnson <johnson at cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> 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
>
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