[Newbies] Re: Beginners Digest, Vol 36, Issue 13

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Apr 27 13:16:31 UTC 2009


On 27.04.2009, at 14:55, Eric Caruyer wrote:

>> PS : Is there a relation between Squeak The Mouse ( Mattioli's  
>> character )  and Squeak the Free Morphic implementation of  
>> SmallTalk ?
>>


I don't think so.

The lore is that Alan Kay made a folder on his disk for a new project  
to experiment with end-user personal computing environments. He named  
that folder "squeak", like you would name a temporary folder "blah",  
"temp", "scratch", etc. and when it was time to name the project, it  
just stuck.

- Bert -



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