A problem hindering SmallTalk's popularity:

Brian T Rice water at tunes.org
Thu Jul 25 21:12:50 UTC 2002


Hi Lily,

Are you taking this class at Georgia Tech? Anyway, for examples like this,
you should not be using Squeak, but Dolphin Smalltalk or some equivalent.
Whoever wrote the curriculum is basically at fault. Different programming
language implementations have different focuses on features.

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Lily Smith wrote:

> I am new to SmallTalk. I have to learn it because I have to take a
> class on
> SmallTalk.
>
> The major reason that why SmallTalk is way less popular as Microsoft VB
> is
> that SmallTalk lacks documentatation and a good tutorial. I know
> SmallTalk
> can do almost everything that VB can, but a newbie like me just don't
> know
> how to do it. It is not easy to find the correct class and method. Even
> if
> I am lucky enough to find it, I have to spend hours to learn how to use
> those methods. Few documentation and examples on the web are available.
> After several setbacks like this, people will probably give up and
> forget
> SmallTalk.
>
> One of my assignments was to add a radio button group and then deal
> with
> the user input. Even my teacher does not know how to implement a radio
> button group. He spent half an hour in class, trying to show us how to
> add
> a radio button group. He failed. Then he wanted us to complete that
> assignment ourselves. God! It is even difficult for a SmallTalk senior
> to
> find out something common! How can SmallTalk be popular? Look at how
> easy
> it is to add a radio button group in Microsoft VB!
>
> Well, it is just my complaint on this language. I hope SmallTalk geeks
> should come up with a very good tutorial book for SmallTalk newbies.
> Otherwise, it will never be popular.
>
>
>
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