Also note the "Stonebraker Formula for Making a Difference" 1. Identify new solution to a data management problem; 2. Lead research project to develop a prototype; 3. Publish paper(s); 4. Publish software code on a public website; 5. Launch startup; 6. Repeat. http://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2015/07/29/turing-award-winner-stonebra... On 7/30/15, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, integrating data from different models and systems a major strength of Smalltalk.
And what Phil described on Cuis list on the 24th of July
He uses Smalltalk for
1. data processing Lots of importers and exporters. The data I need is all over the place both on my local filesystem/network as well as from various Internet sources in just about every format ....
2. visualization/simulation Visualization/simulation: often I'm not just doing a simple data conversion, so once the data is in Cuis I might need to do some analysis to see what I'm dealing with, generate some charts/graphs, visualize relationships within a data set or the results of a simulation, etc. ......
3. prototyping. Prototyping: most of the 'production' code I'm dealing with is in other languages (Java for Android apps as an example). However, I find non-dynamic languages unpleasant to prototype in. So I find myself quite often playing around with my ideas in Cuis even though the implementation target might be a different language/environment.....
--Hannes
On 7/30/15, Craig Latta <craig@netjam.org> wrote:
Eliot writes:
I found an interesting nugget at the end of [1] which is the need to integrate data models in different databases. âIf your application is managing what you want to think of as a single database which is in fact spread over multiple engines,â says Stonebraker, âwith different data models, different transaction systems, different everything, than you want a next-generation federation mechanism to make it as simple as possible to program.â
This would seem to play to Smalltalk's strengths.
Yes indeed!
-C
[1] https://tinyurl.com/o7nmvnv (forbes.com)
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