A stupid newbie question

Frank Lesser Frank-Lesser at Lesser-Software.com
Tue Oct 9 09:13:01 UTC 2001


Squeak is an island of software, how to attract people to come to this
island ?
Software-gurus, Smalltalkers, AI'lers will manage.

But an ordinary programmer ?

Our idea was to enable Native-Windows Programming for Squeak.

So an ordinary programmer can do some ordinary programming work for
MS-Windows.
But then he will have opportunity to discover the "rest" of Squeak.

By not ignoring Windows, we can convince programmers much easier.

Some ideas for getting more and more people to Squeak:

	Don't ignore .NET - We at LSW are already developing .NET apps with
Smalltalk.
	Create tools which generate VB, JavaScript, etc. from Smalltalk
	Create tools to import/export Perl, Ruby, Phyton
	Improve Flash-stuff - make tools for generic-Flash generation.

	The idea of having all in one is quite resonable. 99% of Windows-apps are
not single-	exe. This is a mess - for the user which is forced to update,
update and update.
	You can expect - after some time they will stop to work - because
	DLL-hell, even MS start to take out API's in Windows-XP which were present
in NT.

	A good reason to have all in one. A Squeak application will run in 5 years.
	This can be not expected from Java, Non single-exe's or even .NET apps.

	And it is easy to achieve - write a tool which allows to put an Image as a
resource in 	the exe - if there is no Image - Squeak can read this
resource-image.

Frank






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