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From: knight@mrco.carleton.ca (Alan Knight)
Subject: Re: C++ / Smalltalk
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In <1995Jan5.094541.16980@wavehh.hanse.de> cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) writes:


>Using the right or a wrong language for a given task will cause such
>differences every time, of course. The questions is, how much areas
>are there where C++ or Smalltalk is the right language. Would you
>implement your Smalltalk compiler using Visualworks or xlisp?

I'm not quite sure what your point is here, but all of the Smalltalk
compilers I know of are implemented in entirely in Smalltalk.

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