Squeak Demo image
Stephane Ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Jun 26 18:11:37 UTC 2003
On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 03:57 PM, PhiHo Hoang wrote:
> 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 ;-)
Forget that they believe that the thread model of Squeak is the one
of Smalltalk that this is old.....
>
> 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
>>
>>
>
>
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