<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Max Norman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maxnorman@comcast.net">maxnorman@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I'm a novice programmer, who, at the suggestion of several more experienced developers, is attempting to get familiar with Smalltalk before moving on to Ruby, to more thoroughly learn and understand the concepts of object-oriented programming. First off, is this worth doing?</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>I've started learning Smalltalk after two years of professional Ruby programming. Funny, I've learned a lot on Ruby by learning Smalltalk. Now I think that it's easier to understand object-oriented programming with Smalltalk. With Ruby I've learned a lot about meta-programming.</div>
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'Squeak by Example' appears to be for more experienced programmers, who are approaching Squeak/Smalltalk from a linguistic perspective.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have discovered Smalltalk with this book. It's easy to read and I found it useful.</div>
<div> </div><div>Laurent Laffont.</div></div>