[squeak-dev] Catching up to the 80s

karl ramberg karlramberg at gmail.com
Sat Dec 28 17:51:55 UTC 2013


SyntaxMorph has quite a lot of functionality to do similar results.

There was work being done to bridge Etoys and Squeak but not brought to any
realization other than showing existing methods as tiles. It was not
possible to "write" new methods with tiles.


Karl


On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't have time to read that in detail but one thing I would like to
> port (or, see ported) to Squeak is Jens Mönig's "Syntax-Elements for
> Smalltalk".
>
> https://phratch.googlecode.com/files/Elements090224.pdf
>
> I've managed to look at the code and run it in an old Squeak image.
> Inspired by Scratch except very lightweight, just a few classes!
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > http://peaker.github.io/lamdu/
> >
> > It's an IDE for Haskell that aims to bring to Haskell programmers what
> > we've enjoyed for ages. There might be some things in there that we
> > don't do yet, that might be worth "borrowing".
> >
> > We don't have a real structural editor, for instance. Not a trivial
> > piece of work either, mind you.
> >
> > It's obviously (Haskell!) centred around leveraging the benefits of
> > functional programming. Smalltalk traditionally doesn't use functional
> > techniques (referential transparency, I'm looking at you), and so side
> > effects cause a drastic deviation from some of the techniques lamdu
> > will be able to use.
> >
> > Anyway, it's nice to see the ideas spreading. Please take a look, and
> > see if you can see anything we can borrow!
> >
> > frank
> >
>
>
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