[squeak-dev] Need better default code font

Jecel Assumpcao Jr jecel at merlintec.com
Mon Apr 5 20:36:54 UTC 2021


Douglas Brebner wrote on Mon, 5 Apr 2021 08:42:31 +0100
> On 04/04/2021 23:06, tim Rowledge wrote:
> > I really wish there was a propelr left-arrow-assign for use to use. I hate ':='; it's so.... C
> 
> 
> I thought it was taken from Pascal.

Digitalk introduced ":=" to Smalltalk in its Methods implementation for
the IBM PC even though that machine did have a left arrow characeter
(but with a very different encoding than 1963 ASCII used by Xerox).
Given that the first part of the manual showed code fragments in Methods
and Pascal side by side, it is clear that the choice was indeed made to
make Pascal programmers (the most numerous in the early 1980s) feel at
home.

See chapter 2 of
> http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/files/digitalk/methods-language-guide.pdf

Note that not all PDF readers can handle this file.

-- Jecel


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