[sqh] How close is SmallTalk Express to Squeak syntactically?

Bruce O'Neel bruce_oneel at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 24 11:31:00 UTC 1998


Hi,
  I've also used On To Smalltalk by PHW and found it good.  It was
pretty much perfect up to the files chapter, which I didn't really do,
and then the GUI chapter seemed wrong.  I am, oh so slowly, learning
how to get GUIs to come up.

cheers

bruce

Jake Hamby <jehamby at lightside.com> wrote:
>
> Laurence Rozier wrote:
> > 
> > Asymptotically Approaching Harmony wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi folks;
> > >
> > > After doing an Amazon search I just found a book called _On to
> > > Smalltalk_ by Patrick Henry Winston - I really like his style,
_On to
> > > Java_ is one of my fave Java books by far.
> 
> I ordered this book from Amazon.com and am also extremely impressed
with
> it.  I'm still very new to Smalltalk so hopefully some Squeak experts
> can expand on my comments below about problems with using the book to
> learn Squeak.
> 
> > > So, how close is Smalltalk Express, the dialect he uses in the
book,
> > > to Squeak?
> > 
> > Extremely close.
> 
> In addition to GUI differences, file I/O is also handled quite
> differently from either Smalltalk (though it's a little closer to
> VisualWorks).  While I was able to figure out the basics of file I/O
in
> Squeak through trial and error, and looking at the Squeak source, I
> couldn't figure out an easy way to approximate the nextWord message
> supported by Smalltalk Express.  I'll probably write my own nextWord
so
> I can get past chapter 22.
> 
> The class browser is more similar to VisualWorks than to Smalltalk
> Express, so it may be helpful to jump to chapter 38 and read up on
that
> difference.  I haven't looked at the GUI stuff yet, but hopefully it's
> close enough to VisualWorks that I'll be able to figure it out without
> much trouble.
> 
> -Jake
> 
> 
==
Bruce O'Neel - beoneel at acm.org
http://homepage.iprolink.ch/~bioneel
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