[squeak-dev] Catching up to the 80s

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Sat Dec 28 21:40:02 UTC 2013


I remember the tiles view but never looked at its implementation.  Now
I just read the class comment for SyntaxMorph and, all I can say is,
"wow!"  I think it sounds super cool if it could really do all those
things..

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:51 AM, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> Karl
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> 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
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>> 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!
>>
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>> 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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