[Newbies] New to SmallTalk and Squeak

[Nathan Lane]

Cool, thanks for the correction. I realized right away it was different.
Thanks for explaining.

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
wrote:

> On 28.03.2008, at 17:28, Nathan Lane wrote:
> > There was one I forgot to mention, which claims to use a similar
> > production paradigm to SmallTalk - that is Ruby.  I've been
> > programming in Ruby for over a year now, which I know isn't the
> > same, already, but it too is completely Object Oriented and Object
> > Based.
>
>
> The object semantics are indeed similar. However, in Squeak you're
> interacting with live objects directly, rather than having them
> recreated from dead code all the time. That's a huge difference once
> you make the mind shift.
>
> And, btw, it's "Smalltalk" with a lowercase t.
>
> - Bert -
>
>
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