[squeak-dev] SmalltalkHub

Colin Putney colin at wiresong.com
Thu Apr 7 20:13:01 UTC 2011


On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Frank Shearar
<frank.shearar at angband.za.org> wrote:

> *cough*. Me. OK, I want to be _able_ to. For instance, I'd like to be able
> to bang out a Smalltalk script as easily as I can a Ruby one, with all the
> interoperability that implies (piping to and from other utilities, for
> instance), and in particular, do so without pulling a 20-30MB image.

Why not just use Ruby? Ok, the syntax is a little baroque, but it's
basically Smalltalk in files.

> The main thing is that time and again we waste our time writing our own
> implementations of things, when surely we have better things to do? (I can
> provide a long list... :) )

Is "Ruby" on the list?     :-P

Colin



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