[squeak-dev] Survey: what do you do with Squeak, what do you *want* to do?

Ben Coman btc at openinworld.com
Mon Feb 26 21:10:56 UTC 2018


On 23 February 2018 at 13:16, Edwin Ancaer <eancaer at gmail.com> wrote:

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> What do you use Squeak for?
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> Unfortunately, I mostly just follow the list.  My experience is limited to
> elementary experiments: just defining some classes, and using them in a
> workspace, using the transcript to inspect the results.
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> If you don't use Squeak, why not?
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> I just don't seem to get it. I think I master the building blocks, I get
> what is in the SBE book, but somehow, I don't see how to tie the pieces
> together into something that looks like a regular application.
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Hi Edwin,

You might like Stephan Wessels "LaserGame" tutorial.  Its is a great
end-to-end tutorial for developing a regular application.
http://squeak.preeminent.org/tut2007/html/index.html

I'd suggest you do it in Squeak 3.9 to closely match the version the
tutorial was done in...
http://files.squeak.org/3.9/

cheers -ben



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> If you used Squeak in the past and don't now, what pulled you away?
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> To be honest, it's more a mystery what keeps pulling me towards Squeak,
> given my poor results until now.
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> What does Squeak lack that you think might make you use it for 'regular'
> development?
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> I am not in a position to answer this question.
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> What things are too hard or annoying to do?
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> Everything is hard, but not annoying. I probably need to get more general
> knowledge of the 'Object Oriented' paradigm, and some UI design skills. A
> 30+ year career in mainframe development left me a very procedural guy, and
> a UI for me has 30 lines with 132 colums each.
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> What would you like to be able to use Squeak for?
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> What got me interested was reading about Squeaknos, turtles all the way
> down, at one of those moments I was struggling once more with a linux
> upgrade that destroyed the GNUstep installation I had managed to install.
> Now I see this is miles beyond my reach, but that was the spark.
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> Currently, I'm trying to build an intelligent doorbell, with Squeak and a
> Raspberry Pi that was laying around here. Now if only it would just ring
> outside the simulation.
> Did I mention my knowledge of electronics is far below average.....
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> I don't know if this is of much use to you, but since you asked....
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> tim
> --
> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> C for sinking, java for drinking, Smalltalk for thinking
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