Smalltalk at oopsla
Hans N Beck
hnbeck at t-online.de
Wed Oct 26 17:27:38 UTC 2005
Hi Alexandre,
thanks for the report :-) Anything new to 0.3 Croquet ? Have they
mentioned when to next release could come ? There is nowhere any
information (Blogs or Website, at least I don't found it...)
Greetings
Hans
Am 20.10.2005 um 16:52 schrieb Alexandre Bergel:
> Hello,
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> Today is the last day of oopsla. It was a really cool surprise to
> see how many times Smalltalk was cited during talks and how many
> compliments it obtained. Here some particular moment I enjoyed:
> - Before the keynote of Mary Beth, James Noble said something
> like: "Eclipse tries to achieve something that Smalltalk did 20
> years ago, and remains still behind". The room was completely full
> at that time.
> - The room where the Croquet workshop hold was completely full,
> even if the organization was a bit shaky (please, do not take it
> bad :-), this was really cool! The room was completely full, and it
> did not contains only smalltalkers, but also people who were just
> curious and wanted to learn more.
> - David Reed gave a talk on Croquet, and the room was really
> big, and was completely full.
> - Roel Wuyts was chair of the Symposium on Dynamic Languages.
> And again, the room was too small to contain all the attendees :-)
> Especially for the very last talk given by Brian Foote; the doors
> had to left open in order to make people standing outside able to
> listen.
> - Martin McClure organized a Squeak BOF. That was really cool.
> Again, some people came here just to learn more about squeak/
> smalltalk.
>
> I was also delighted to see that some technical presentations in
> the research tracks shown DrScheme into action. Kathryn did a demo
> using DrScheme, and it was really cool!
>
> Also, I felt that Smalltalk had more attention than Ruby and other
> Python. This oopsla was a wonderful opportunity to meet people in
> real.
>
> Keep going Smalltalkers! We have cool things to show, and we have
> to show them!
> I would like to give big hands to Roel and Martin to have organized
> their events.
>
> Cheers,
> Alexandre
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