[squeak-dev] SmalltalkHub

Casey Ransberger casey.obrien.r at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 20:40:52 UTC 2011


It would reduce the culture shock for people coming from other languages, I think. I don't think you need a new syntax really, just an EDSL. 

On Apr 7, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Casey Ransberger
> <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Er, well, file based tools don't work well for Smalltalk code because our fileout format isn't meant to be edited by humans. It doesn't have to be this way. Look at GNU Smalltalk. Files work fine there because there's support for them...
> 
> Well, you could invent a new syntax and a system for dealing with code
> in files, sure. The Pharo folks are doing that with Coral. But that
> goes far beyond what Frank proposed, and it's probably more work than
> writing SmalltalkHub. Besides, who wants to write Smalltalk code in
> emacs?
> 
> Colin
> 



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