What's the best brain bludgeon?

Serg Koren skoren at pop5.ibm.net
Mon Feb 23 02:23:10 UTC 1998


"On To Smalltalk" - Patrick Henry Winston is very good.
Also if you want the code for "A Taste of Smalltalk" you can get it from my
MacSqueak 1.24 http://www.VisualNewt.com/Mac/Squeak124.html

Cheers,
S

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On Sunday, February 22, 1998 3:06 PM, William Barnett-Lewis [SMTP:wlewis at mailbag.com] wrote:
> The only one even close is "A Taste of Smalltalk" by our fearless T.K.
> I'm working on turning it into a built in tutorial, but I fear this (for
> reasons other than it's content) may end upp being beyond me. But if I
> ever can claim to understand ST, it will only be due to reading this
> book -- several times. I can't say that, like SICP or "On Lisp", I've
> learned something new everytime I've picked it up; but OTOH, I could
> probably say every other time...
> 
> 
> William
> 
> Christopher Oliver wrote:
> 
> >     I'm still looking for a Smalltalk book comparable to SICP or
> > Graham's "On Lisp" guaranteed to put muscles on a guy or grow hair
> > on a billiard ball.  Can anyone give me some pointers.  So far,
> > I've read through the purple and orange books, Burbeck's MVC piece,
> > and Liu.  I was rather hoping the last of these might fit the bill,
> > but I was left hungry.  Are there any decent brain bludgeons for
> > a curious Squeaker?
> >
> > Happy hacking,
> >
> > --
> > Christopher Oliver                     Traverse Communications
> > Systems Coordinator                    223 Grandview Pkwy, Suite 108
> > oliver at traverse.com                    Traverse City, Michigan, 49684
> >    (define magic (lambda (f) (lambda (x) x)))
> >    (define (more-magic n) (lambda (f) (lambda (x) (f ((n f) x)))))
> 
> 
> 





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