Thanks for this report! I guess I should get a videocam and microphone
and try this out next time.

Dave

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 05:17:53PM -0300, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:
> Yesterday we had another Squeak Community Hangout (some of the previous
> ones were on April 22, April 8, March 25, March 11, November 2012 and
> August 30). Though there were fewer people than normal, I thought it
> would be interesting to mention a bit of what was talking about for
> those who weren't there.
> 
> Bob Arning shared a scan of a very nice article from a late 1976 issue
> of Popular Science which had a picture of him running a program he had
> written for the Dazzler board on the Altair 8800 computer. This was at a
> store he owned at the time. He also shared a reimplementation of that
> same program in Squeak.
> 
> Edgar De Cleene mentioned his frustration with the lack of something
> between Pharo's "throw out the old stuff no matter what breaks" scheme
> and Squeak's extremely conservative position. I suggested that allowing
> a system to have several separate images working together could be a
> solution to that, as well as making good use of today's multicore
> machines. It would also be a way to add security to SqueakNOS. We also
> talked a bit about Spoon.
> 
> Hans-Martin Mosner asked if anybody had Squeak code for Elliptic Curve
> Cryptography. He mentioned that he is part of the Squeak special
> interest group on cryptography (http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5776), but
> nobody there has this stuff and he doesn't know any other Smalltalk that
> has it.
> 
> That was about it, though since these meetings are supposed to last 24
> hours it is possible that more people showed up when I wasn't there.
> Most of the conversations are about Squeak, of course, but in the past
> we have also talked about subjects such as DRAM bit geometry and the
> effect of alpha particles. And at one point yesterday we had a "show off
> your pet" moment. :-)
> 
> -- Jecel
>