Hi Marcus,

    If anyone could organise an effort so that Ruby guys can use
    Squeak/Morphic (instead of Tcl/Tk ;-) for their Ruby IDE,
    then a great service were done to both Squeak and Ruby
    communities.

    Then someone can easily convince the Mozart-Oz guys
    to use Squeak/Morphic instead of Emacs/Tcl/Tk.

    And Mozart-Oz guys might like Squeak so much that they
    would extend their kernel languages and VM to support
    Squeak ;-)

    And Squeakers will have their cake and eat it too ;-)

    Please keep up with the good work, Marcus.

    Cheers,

    PhiHo.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcus Denker" <marcus at ira.uka.de>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 4:10 AM
Subject: Re: Squeak Demo image


> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:42:48PM +0200, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> > Cool - and they didn't stone you? ;-)
> >
> Nope. Seems to be that they actually liked it. Ruby is a quite nice
> small scripting language that was heavily influenced by Smalltalk.
> They even have Blocks.
>
> The Idea of the Talk was to show them the development environment
> (they use VI...)
>
> So:
>
>  Beyond vi 60min
>
>  Ruby took some good ideas from Smalltalk . But it ignored the environment
>  completly that made Smalltalk so powerfull. Using Squeak as an example,
>  this talk will give an introduction to some advanced tools in the
Smalltalk
>  world (Refactoring Browser, StarBrowser, SLint, ...).
>
> (actually, I did only show MethodFinder, RefactoringBrowser and the
> wonderful SUNIT-Browser integration. The first part was a Squeak Demo).
>
> > Seriously, how did people react? were they interested? did you get
> > interesting questions?
> >
> My impression was that most of them were very impressed by the
> methodfinder, refactoring browser and the overall development environment.
> I talked to one guy from spain who's planning to implement a Ruby IDE,
> and he was very impressed (and had lots of good questions, actually).
>
>     Marcus
>
> --
> Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de  -- Squeak! http://squeak.de
>
>