Hi.

Here are some properties of Smalltalk/Squeak I like a lot:

"Duck typing" (dynamic typing) Late binding (runtime modification) Image-based environment Navigation & browsing tools (like senders/implementers) Access to complete source for the system Children's stuff (eToys and various playful objects) are part of the distribution Flexible "windowing system" (Morphic/Tweak)

Squeak is like a spreadsheet in the respect that a change instantly affects the system (this dynamic aspect is one of the things that made spreadsheets popular, you can experiment with your data, it is not a static calculation). Very few systems have this today, even Lisp systems seem to have lost this aspect, Python/Ruby could have it, but no tools seem to take advantage of it.

Best, Micke

On 10/26/06, Klaus D. Witzel klaus.witzel@cobss.com wrote:

Hi folks,

I think that I'm going to build the Squeak Collection of Outstanding Remarkable Values. Therefore I have to tap the collective memory of the Squeakers (->YOU!)

Take the following true positive examples which I hope do illustrate what I want to collect (further down below it has some false positive examples that I don't want to collect, just let them coexist please).

Of course as soon as some momentum is gathered there be a web page which all the google users can make their start page.

Do you happen to know a knowledgeable factum? If so, please post. Was such a collection already set up? If so, please post. Even if you have just some meager keywords: I want to know them, please post. I will do all the hard research work and find out the background and the related (if google permits).

Thank you in advance, please post even your craziest idea!

/Klaus

+++++++examples+++++++

All platforms same image; unmatched interoperability.

• http://www.squeak.org/Download

Double dispatching; invented by the Smalltalk inventors.

• http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=28732

Continuations; out of reach for majority of Smalltalk's competitors.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation

Seaside; nothing without continuations.

• http://www.u3engage.org/public/thesis/ContinuationsModel.php
• http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-cb03216/

-------examples-------

Smalltalk is better than Java.

Everything is possible with Smalltalk.

Squeak is an ...

• http://www.squeak.org/About/

Smalltalk, the language, is:

• http://www.squeak.org/Features/

This is what we've got so far:

- http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2006-October/110688.h...

Please help adding to this collection, thank you.

----------------------[reposted]

Hi folks,

I think that I'm going to build the Squeak Collection of Outstanding Remarkable Values. Therefore I have to tap the collective memory of the Squeakers (->YOU!)

Take the following true positive examples which I hope do illustrate what I want to collect (further down below it has some false positive examples that I don't want to collect, just let them coexist please).

Of course as soon as some momentum is gathered there be a web page which all the google users can make their start page.

Do you happen to know a knowledgeable factum? If so, please post. Was such a collection already set up? If so, please post. Even if you have just some meager keywords: I want to know them, please post. I will do all the hard research work and find out the background and the related (if google permits).

Thank you in advance, please post even your craziest idea!

/Klaus

+++++++examples+++++++

All platforms same image; unmatched interoperability. - http://www.squeak.org/Download

Double dispatching; invented by the Smalltalk inventors. - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=28732

Continuations; out of reach for majority of Smalltalk's competitors. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation

Seaside; nothing without continuations. - http://www.u3engage.org/public/thesis/ContinuationsModel.php - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-cb03216/

-------examples-------

Smalltalk is better than Java.

Everything is possible with Smalltalk.

Squeak is an ... - http://www.squeak.org/About/

Smalltalk, the language, is: - http://www.squeak.org/Features/