reference manual need
Bijan Parsia
bparsia at email.unc.edu
Mon May 21 01:52:15 UTC 2001
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Andrew P. Black wrote:
[snip]
> "Inside SMalltalk" by Lalonde and Pugh. Volume 1 (blue) is a
> very comprehensive reference to the basic Smalltalk class library
> (collections, streams, etc). It refers to VisualWOrks, but most of
> this stuff is the same in Squeak. Volume 2 is a very comprehensive
> reference to a version of the VisualWorks UI classes and was out of
> date almost as soon as it hit the bookstores. It's not much use for
> Squeak.
Actually, I find it often of great use. Some bits are gold as is (e.g.,
the stuff on Processes). Others, while not much use as a reference *per
se*, are still cool for ideas and even (to-be-modified slightly) code.
Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.
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