Learning Squeak

Noel J. Bergman noel at devtech.com
Sat Jan 19 07:02:10 UTC 2002


> The hard parts of Smalltalk are things like OO design, the code browser,
> the way collections and streams work, and so on -- not the syntax.

Which gets us full circle back to the original point:

> [The] lack of really good tutorials geared to take existing
> C(++)/Pascal/Java programmers (or any programmer for that matter) from
> newbie to mastery is one of the most significant failings.

You made too much out of the "odd syntax", which was in quotes in the first
place to represent it as a somewhat tongue-in-cheek comment.  Odd?  LISP
(which I loath) and APL (which I love) are odd, not Smalltalk.

> It's taken me years to learn Smalltalk, too

It shouldn't, but look how many times that's been said recently.

	--- Noel




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