is squeak really object oriented ?

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Thu May 22 21:27:29 UTC 2003


On Thursday 22 May 2003 12:55 pm, jan ziak wrote:
> hi. I've got a strange question: is squeak really an object
> oriented system or it only claims it is? the point of the question
> is that instead of working with objects, i work mostly with text.
> the objects are in fact only in my head, as a consequence of
> reading sources of objects which are in the browser. but the
> objects are not tangible, i cannot see them. for example, let's
> take an instance of an OrderedCollection: this object is in fact
> not an object but a textual representation of it, I cannot see the
> collection on my workspace and must simulate all its behavior on my
> own and imagine it in my head.
>

Look at the MathMorphs/MorphicWrappers project. This attempts to make 
objects directly tangible.

http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/480
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/354
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