[ANSI-Smalltalk] what to work on first

[Janko Mivšek]

John O'Keefe wrote:
> 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?

For web servers and frameworks definitively Sockets, Files and Times, in 
that order. Actually everything what Sport already exposed as 
troublesome to port.

Best regards
Janko



> 
> 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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Janko Mivšek
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