🚀 go-pugleaf

I don't want to flame, but I own a NeXT, a PC and a Mac II. I have taken
the NeXT dev class, so I know how to use the thing. Still, I find that
my old Toshiba T1000 with no hard disk and Turbo Pascal 5.5 outperfroms
the NeXT for simple programming.
The reason is speed. TP can take under a second to compile, and hilites the
errors in the editor. The strong typing catches most bugs immediately. I've
written both a neural net program, and a genetic algorithm that way, and
found it to be the fastest way to get the job done. Also, I can carry the 
T1000 around, it runs off the RAM disk for 4 hours, and GETS THE JOB DONE.
The NeXT environment is great, but awfully slow (several seconds) badly
integrated (no editor-compiler combo that hilites errors fast), has no
real compile-time checking (the trouble with C) . It is GREAT however for
writing GUI applications. There it beats anything else hands down.
Ha- I have fed the flames some more :-)

Edmund.