For why smalltalk, you might check <a href="http://whysmalltalk.org">whysmalltalk.org</a>.<br><br>I wrote a little piece on what makes Squeak special on my blog last year:<br><a href="http://www.withaguide.com/2009/04/what-makes-squeak-special.html">http://www.withaguide.com/2009/04/what-makes-squeak-special.html</a><br>
<br>Don't have time this AM to rewrite the C code, but will look tonight. You might want to look at the first chapter of "A Taste of Smalltalk" which rewrites a simple Pascal program in Pascal style code with Smalltalk.<br>
<br>On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Samuel Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:space.ship.traveller@gmail.com">space.ship.traveller@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div>Dear Friends,<br><br>I'm looking for some help from the Smalltalk community. I hope this is the right place to ask for information.<br><br>I'm putting together a website aimed at high school students and teachers, and would like to make sure the following page is as good as possible:</div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="http://programming.dojo.net.nz/languages/smalltalk/index" target="_blank">http://programming.dojo.net.nz/languages/smalltalk/index</a></div><div><br></div>
<div><div>In particular, "Why would I learn this language?" section needs to have a few paragraphs. I don't use Smalltalk so I hoped that you could provide the main reasons why Smalltalk is a language someone would want to learn about.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It would also be great if someone could rewrite the Smalltalk source code example so that it is as close as possible to the C implementation:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> <a href="http://programming.dojo.net.nz/languages/c/index" target="_blank">http://programming.dojo.net.nz/languages/c/index</a></span></div>
<div><br></div><div>I understand that Smalltalk is very different from C, and uses different paradigms, so it doesn't have to be identical, however it would be great if it worked in generally the same way. It would be great if you could include comments explaining how it works and what is happening (like the C example).</div>
<div><br></div></div><div>Any other suggestions or ideas for the Smalltalk page would be fantastic, and any suggestions to other pages in general is also very helpful.<br><br><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="http://programming.dojo.net.nz/" target="_blank">http://programming.dojo.net.nz/</a><br>
<br>Kind regards,<br><font color="#888888">Samuel</font></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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