I think that most people starting with Squeak lack -- not how to 
write expressions in Smalltalk, but -- the basic knowledge of how to 
do useful things using Morphic and the other UI and multimedia tools. 
Also, the tools themselves, though powerful, are kind of randomly 
organized and are in the state they were in when their creators lost 
interest in packaging them.

So I think some packaging should be done -- I have suggested that the 
"superset of Hypercard" which extends over multimedia, etc. be the 
focus -- this should be made stable, and a book should be made 
available about how to do stuff.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 2:54 PM -0300 4/18/02, Ivan Tomek wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I think that an O'Reilley book specifically about Squeak is too restrictive
>and excludes the other dialects. I think that for most of us, it's really
>mainly Smalltalk in one form or another that we want to publicize. What
>about a Ruby-in-a-Nutshell-style/size book consisting basically of
>three-parts:
>
>1. Base common to all dialects.
>2. Application areas such as DB, Internet, ... each divided into sections
>covering dialect-specific approaches to the same problems.
>3. Short chapters dedicated to major dialects presenting the nature and
>special features of each.
>
>Comments?
>
>Ivan
>
>P.S. Would anybody be interested in a BOF session on the subject in
>Cincinnati?


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