Two years ago, I noted that Smalltalk was not represented in the annual Stack Overflow developer survey, and committed to try and change that. We were partly successful – Smalltalk […]
There are some frameworks in the Cincom Smalltalk product that are obsolete, antiquated or have been replaced by newer technology and designated as “legacy.”
The purpose of the Hidden Gems Screencast is to make developers who use Cincom Smalltalk aware of the useful abilities of the products that may not be obvious.
The Transcript in Cincom® ObjectStudio® and Cincom® VisualWorks® is a handy place in which to write information. It is frequently used as a temporary text output interface to communicate information and at times, to aid with debugging.
The underlying text handling of the entire Cincom Smalltalk Foundation has been re-written in both Cincom® ObjectStudio® and Cincom® VisualWorks® from the ground up. It has been integrated in order to handle modern and future needs.
MapReduce is a popular and effective technique that’s used to apply concurrency to problems that often involve large amounts of data, in order to improve performance.