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Nice work.
Anyway strongly typed langs are not for everyone, and frameworks are too
a problem for some people.
Because the strongly-typed feature its very dificult to code for BB, but
the resulting code its safer. Mostly because vars are already appropiate
and data conversion of types are under programmer control.
I like some interesting BB features, like closures. Javascript also
support closures but its not strongly typed.
If you really want fun, here its a Javascript scheme portage ('potage' in
spanish)
http://www.crockford.com/javascript/little.html
Yet another fun lang its Smalltask 80. You can get something fun here:
http://www.squeak.org/
http://www.squeakland.org/
My point its:
Component Pascal has nice features, has Javascript, Scheme and Smalltalk.
But its not for everyone, and not for people that hate frameworks.
Imho.
Rex Couture wrote:
> At 02:56 PM 2/15/2005 -0500, Wojtek Skulski wrote:
>
>> I added a handful of new slides on HW and DLL interfacing to my
>>presentation that is available at
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~skulski/
>>The new slides start at slide 76. The examples were lifted from many HW
>>interface modules that we now have in the lab. I hope the examples may
>>help someone who is interfacing DLLs or hardware with BlackBox.
>
>
>
> Congratulations! This is a superb demonstration of the simplicity and power of CP and Oberon. It's hard to imagine a clearer or more persuasive presentation to suck users into CP, and I mean that in the nicest way.
>
> For what it's worth, here are a few of the aspects that I liked most:
>
> 1. The ability to start software almost anywhere during development and testing (pp 52-53). Unless I am missing something, this is an incredibly powerful paradigm, and it's as simple as it can be. This ought to greatly ease testing small pieces of large programs.
>
> 2. The automatic GUI builder. "GUI code does not even exist." (p. 74).
>
> 3. The ease of specifying public and private fields and methods in a record or object.
>
> 4. The ease of extending records and objects in client modules (without having to restructure anything, and without needless proliferation of type names). OK, this description is mostly from Wirth, but I still like it.
>
> 5. And finally, I wish I could say that Delphi has not crashed for me and that code has always worked as written, but alas I cannot. If your programs virtually never crashes, it doesn't get any better than that.
>
> 6. The DLL interfacing demonstration.
>
> I suppose those points were out there somewhere waiting to be appreciated, but somehow I missed them in the noise. If anyone is teetering on the brink of a choice of language, by all means have a look at that presentation.
>
> Sincerely,
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