From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-11-09T23:12:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Alternative code

gregarican wrote:
> Apologies for a slightly OT question. Due to some portability issues
> I'm having with a Ruby app I've developed I am considering rewriting
> it in Smalltalk. I've never used Smalltalk before, but have read some
> FAQ's and tutorials. I'm wondering if there are any major gotchas that
> anyone here might know of. Here are the additional areas that are
> above and beyond the core Ruby library stuff:
>
> . XMLRPC client calls
> . DBI calls to SQL Server using an OLEDB connection
> . Win32API calls
>
> Can I include such functionality easily "out of the box" with
> Smalltalk or would I have to reinvent the wheel? I have posted this
> question in the c.l.s newsgroup as well, but would appreciate a Ruby
> perspective. Out of any language I've used so far Ruby is the one
> that I prefer above all. It's the cleanest, most logical, and most
> enjoyable to use. I sincerely hate having to abandon it for this one
> particular app, but I have little choice it seems. So figuring that
> Squeak fits my portability requirements I am considering giving it a
> shot. But if the gotchas are too much to surmount then I might have
> to just forget about porting my app to a Windows Mobile 5.0 PDA...

Did you consider Java?  It's cross platform and has all three mentioned
above if you need win32api only for UI.

Kind regards

    robert