Byte magazine which published the balloon concept for Smalltalk rising above the ivory tower of a lighthouse guiding the way in a sea of computer languages is out of business. I think it is time for the Squeak balloon to be grounded to connect with the reality of why computer languages exist - to make things easy for application developers. So I propose all Squeak developers stop "improving" Squeak for one year and spend the time writing useful applications in Squeak. That could lead to a basket of new ideas for next year. Maybe make this a regularly scheduled event - a half year for applications and a half year for Squeak?
The reason motivating this suggestion is on the advice of a Squeak-Dev member, I downloaded the latest all in one and to my chagrin, I found an improvement that made Squeak as worthless as a balloon full of machine gun holes. The Workspace window gets halos with a right mouse click on a standard 2 button laptop mouse. So I'll return to an older Squeak for now.
I am a beginner with Squeak and the problem I am facing is not knowing how to go about using the tools available.
There is a lot of language information, but not a “here’s what we do” best practices for developers. I don’t mean coding, but I mean, how to find the resource I need. How to build your project in pieces that you can test, etc.
What I was looking for is an Apprentice kind of relationship, but nobody seems interested or nearby.
Sincerely,
Joe.
On May 6, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Kirk Fraser [via Smalltalk] ml-node+s1294792n4893792h1@n4.nabble.com wrote:
Byte magazine which published the balloon concept for Smalltalk rising above the ivory tower of a lighthouse guiding the way in a sea of computer languages is out of business. I think it is time for the Squeak balloon to be grounded to connect with the reality of why computer languages exist - to make things easy for application developers. So I propose all Squeak developers stop "improving" Squeak for one year and spend the time writing useful applications in Squeak. That could lead to a basket of new ideas for next year. Maybe make this a regularly scheduled event - a half year for applications and a half year for Squeak?
The reason motivating this suggestion is on the advice of a Squeak-Dev member, I downloaded the latest all in one and to my chagrin, I found an improvement that made Squeak as worthless as a balloon full of machine gun holes. The Workspace window gets halos with a right mouse click on a standard 2 button laptop mouse. So I'll return to an older Squeak for now.
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Hi,
I was in a similar situation years ago, but this was deeply with Pharo (which started as a fork of Squeak in 2009). If you want developer related documentation you could see:
Cheers,
Offray
On 06/05/16 15:23, Joseph Alotta wrote:
I am a beginner with Squeak and the problem I am facing is not knowing how to go about using the tools available.
There is a lot of language information, but not a “here’s what we do” best practices for developers. I don’t mean coding, but I mean, how to find the resource I need. How to build your project in pieces that you can test, etc.
What I was looking for is an Apprentice kind of relationship, but nobody seems interested or nearby.
Sincerely,
Joe.
On May 6, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Kirk Fraser [via Smalltalk] <[hidden
email] </user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4893802&i=0>> wrote:
Byte magazine which published the balloon concept for Smalltalk
rising above the ivory tower of a lighthouse guiding the way in a sea of computer languages is out of business. I think it is time for the Squeak balloon to be grounded to connect with the reality of why computer languages exist - to make things easy for application developers. So I propose all Squeak developers stop "improving" Squeak for one year and spend the time writing useful applications in Squeak. That could lead to a basket of new ideas for next year. Maybe make this a regularly scheduled event - a half year for applications and a half year for Squeak?
The reason motivating this suggestion is on the advice of a
Squeak-Dev member, I downloaded the latest all in one and to my chagrin, I found an improvement that made Squeak as worthless as a balloon full of machine gun holes. The Workspace window gets halos with a right mouse click on a standard 2 button laptop mouse. So I'll return to an older Squeak for now.
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Joe,
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 13:23 -0700, Joseph Alotta wrote:
I am a beginner with Squeak and the problem I am facing is not knowing how to go about using the tools available.
Having gone through this myself not too many years ago, yet before things really started to get crazy (in good and bad ways) in the Squeak world, I appreciate what you're saying. Squeak and its dialects can seem pretty impenetrable until you learn 'the basics' which unfortunately are a bit of a moving target (esp. re: the tools and UI) depending on what you're trying to learn/do.
There is a lot of language information, but not a “here’s what we do” best practices for developers. I don’t mean coding, but I mean, how to find the resource I need. How to build your project in pieces that you can test, etc.
This is where things probably get pretty tough once you get beyond the absolute basics. In its effort to get better, things are constantly being broken in ways that are often no big deal once you get over the hump and learn your way around. However, they're changing enough to 'break' a lot of the existing tutorials and they're changing often enough that said tutorials don't seem to be getting updated to reflect the changes in later releases. As if this weren't enough, there are factions with different views on overall direction which directly impacts things like best practices and is why we have different 'distros' ala Squeak/Pharo/Cuis/etc.
What I was looking for is an Apprentice kind of relationship, but nobody seems interested or nearby.
That's probably going to be difficult as Smalltalk has a very small population of programmers vs. other languages. So getting someone with experience to spend 1-on-1 time with is going to be difficult and/or expensive. Your best bet to get started is to read the mailing lists (I would recommend this list, squeak-dev, and cuis as they are all good places to ask basic questions) and just ask when you get stuck. There are a few good written works you can use as a starting point (you might want to check out something from http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/792) and there are several people who have put together some good intro material on YouTube (For example Lawson English https://www.youtube.com/playlist ?list=PL6601A198DF14788D and the late James Robertson https://www.youtu be.com/playlist?list=PL61A023880D3529DB have put together some basic stuff that should be helpful)
Something I'd highly recommend: if you find a tutorial you like, find out what version of whatever dialect they based the tutorial on and try to use that *exact* version (or at least get as close as you can: if something was written with Squeak 3.x in mind, don't use Squeak 4.x to try to follow along etc.) This will minimize the pain of trying to mentally map the tutorial to a different VM/image with even a slightly different feature set and UI. When you're just getting started, that's not the time you want to be worried about using the bleeding edge VM or image. If you can't figure out what version to use, post details and ask on the lists as either someone who used it or possibly even the person who created it might be reading.
Sincerely,
Joe.
Hope this helps, Phil
On May 6, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Kirk Fraser [via Smalltalk] <[hidden
email]> wrote:
Byte magazine which published the balloon concept for Smalltalk
rising above the ivory tower of a lighthouse guiding the way in a sea of computer languages is out of business. I think it is time for the Squeak balloon to be grounded to connect with the reality of why computer languages exist - to make things easy for application developers. So I propose all Squeak developers stop "improving" Squeak for one year and spend the time writing useful applications in Squeak. That could lead to a basket of new ideas for next year. Maybe make this a regularly scheduled event - a half year for applications and a half year for Squeak?
The reason motivating this suggestion is on the advice of a Squeak-
Dev member, I downloaded the latest all in one and to my chagrin, I found an improvement that made Squeak as worthless as a balloon full of machine gun holes. The Workspace window gets halos with a right mouse click on a standard 2 button laptop mouse. So I'll return to an older Squeak for now.
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Newbies, I learned by examining a Dictionary until I understood how it works and that got me a job. I also got a little help from an old college chum after I started a Smalltalk special interest group of the Portland PC Club. Beyond that it was learning by doing, hiring an offshore consultant for a special project to make a database using a Balanced Tree algorithm (which oddly is not part of Squeak when that one data structure could replace most of the rest of them. Then there was the occasional help by Squeak experts on various things like how to turn off preferences or where to find code to work with a camera. A big help has been focusing my attention on writing a new computer language in Smalltalk which requires lots of work that most programmers never do. But I still can't count myself as an expert because I don't know lots of important things yet like how to use FFI or how to write an FF or how to make Squeak work on a Windows 98 computer which i have to use to run a CNC machine.
Experts, my OP was mainly to talk you into doing some real useful work on Squeak instead of aggrandizing yourselves on work that is not truly useful - you know replacing all the collections with a Balanced Tree might be nice or making sharp examples of Secure Sockets or FFI that people can use or get Squeak repaired so it can work on Win 98 or without Halos replacing menus or how to make most of the programs one might download from CNet but I guess it rings a bell with the real newbies that there isn't enough help anywhere. To translate that, I as an intermediate programmer need to be taught how to be senior programmer. So we need better mentoring for everyone.
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Phil (list) pbpublist@gmail.com wrote:
Joe,
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 13:23 -0700, Joseph Alotta wrote:
I am a beginner with Squeak and the problem I am facing is not knowing how to go about using the tools available.
Having gone through this myself not too many years ago, yet before things really started to get crazy (in good and bad ways) in the Squeak world, I appreciate what you're saying. Squeak and its dialects can seem pretty impenetrable until you learn 'the basics' which unfortunately are a bit of a moving target (esp. re: the tools and UI) depending on what you're trying to learn/do.
There is a lot of language information, but not a “here’s what we do” best practices for developers. I don’t mean coding, but I mean, how to find the resource I need. How to build your project in pieces that you can test, etc.
This is where things probably get pretty tough once you get beyond the absolute basics. In its effort to get better, things are constantly being broken in ways that are often no big deal once you get over the hump and learn your way around. However, they're changing enough to 'break' a lot of the existing tutorials and they're changing often enough that said tutorials don't seem to be getting updated to reflect the changes in later releases. As if this weren't enough, there are factions with different views on overall direction which directly impacts things like best practices and is why we have different 'distros' ala Squeak/Pharo/Cuis/etc.
What I was looking for is an Apprentice kind of relationship, but nobody seems interested or nearby.
That's probably going to be difficult as Smalltalk has a very small population of programmers vs. other languages. So getting someone with experience to spend 1-on-1 time with is going to be difficult and/or expensive. Your best bet to get started is to read the mailing lists (I would recommend this list, squeak-dev, and cuis as they are all good places to ask basic questions) and just ask when you get stuck. There are a few good written works you can use as a starting point (you might want to check out something from http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/792) and there are several people who have put together some good intro material on YouTube (For example Lawson English https://www.youtube.com/playlist ?list=PL6601A198DF14788D and the late James Robertson https://www.youtu be.com/playlist?list=PL61A023880D3529DB have put together some basic stuff that should be helpful)
Something I'd highly recommend: if you find a tutorial you like, find out what version of whatever dialect they based the tutorial on and try to use that *exact* version (or at least get as close as you can: if something was written with Squeak 3.x in mind, don't use Squeak 4.x to try to follow along etc.) This will minimize the pain of trying to mentally map the tutorial to a different VM/image with even a slightly different feature set and UI. When you're just getting started, that's not the time you want to be worried about using the bleeding edge VM or image. If you can't figure out what version to use, post details and ask on the lists as either someone who used it or possibly even the person who created it might be reading.
Sincerely,
Joe.
Hope this helps, Phil
On May 6, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Kirk Fraser [via Smalltalk] <[hidden
email]> wrote:
Byte magazine which published the balloon concept for Smalltalk
rising above the ivory tower of a lighthouse guiding the way in a sea of computer languages is out of business. I think it is time for the Squeak balloon to be grounded to connect with the reality of why computer languages exist - to make things easy for application developers. So I propose all Squeak developers stop "improving" Squeak for one year and spend the time writing useful applications in Squeak. That could lead to a basket of new ideas for next year. Maybe make this a regularly scheduled event - a half year for applications and a half year for Squeak?
The reason motivating this suggestion is on the advice of a Squeak-
Dev member, I downloaded the latest all in one and to my chagrin, I found an improvement that made Squeak as worthless as a balloon full of machine gun holes. The Workspace window gets halos with a right mouse click on a standard 2 button laptop mouse. So I'll return to an older Squeak for now.
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Kirk,
I would be interested in looking at your balance tree algorithm.
Do you have some code that I can inspect?
Sincerely,
Joe.
On May 7, 2016, at 12:42 AM, Kirk Fraser [via Smalltalk] ml-node+s1294792n4893831h10@n4.nabble.com wrote:
Newbies, I learned by examining a Dictionary until I understood how it works and that got me a job. I also got a little help from an old college chum after I started a Smalltalk special interest group of the Portland PC Club. Beyond that it was learning by doing, hiring an offshore consultant for a special project to make a database using a Balanced Tree algorithm (which oddly is not part of Squeak when that one data structure could replace most of the rest of them. Then there was the occasional help by Squeak experts on various things like how to turn off preferences or where to find code to work with a camera. A big help has been focusing my attention on writing a new computer language in Smalltalk which requires lots of work that most programmers never do. But I still can't count myself as an expert because I don't know lots of important things yet like how to use FFI or how to write an FF or how to make Squeak work on a Windows 98 computer which i have to use to run a CNC machine.
Experts, my OP was mainly to talk you into doing some real useful work on Squeak instead of aggrandizing yourselves on work that is not truly useful - you know replacing all the collections with a Balanced Tree might be nice or making sharp examples of Secure Sockets or FFI that people can use or get Squeak repaired so it can work on Win 98 or without Halos replacing menus or how to make most of the programs one might download from CNet but I guess it rings a bell with the real newbies that there isn't enough help anywhere. To translate that, I as an intermediate programmer need to be taught how to be senior programmer. So we need better mentoring for everyone.
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Phil (list) <[hidden email]>wrote: Joe,
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 13:23 -0700, Joseph Alotta wrote:
I am a beginner with Squeak and the problem I am facing is not knowing how to go about using the tools available.
Having gone through this myself not too many years ago, yet before things really started to get crazy (in good and bad ways) in the Squeak world, I appreciate what you're saying. Squeak and its dialects can seem pretty impenetrable until you learn 'the basics' which unfortunately are a bit of a moving target (esp. re: the tools and UI) depending on what you're trying to learn/do.
There is a lot of language information, but not a “here’s what we do” best practices for developers. I don’t mean coding, but I mean, how to find the resource I need. How to build your project in pieces that you can test, etc.
This is where things probably get pretty tough once you get beyond the absolute basics. In its effort to get better, things are constantly being broken in ways that are often no big deal once you get over the hump and learn your way around. However, they're changing enough to 'break' a lot of the existing tutorials and they're changing often enough that said tutorials don't seem to be getting updated to reflect the changes in later releases. As if this weren't enough, there are factions with different views on overall direction which directly impacts things like best practices and is why we have different 'distros' ala Squeak/Pharo/Cuis/etc.
What I was looking for is an Apprentice kind of relationship, but nobody seems interested or nearby.
That's probably going to be difficult as Smalltalk has a very small population of programmers vs. other languages. So getting someone with experience to spend 1-on-1 time with is going to be difficult and/or expensive. Your best bet to get started is to read the mailing lists (I would recommend this list, squeak-dev, and cuis as they are all good places to ask basic questions) and just ask when you get stuck. There are a few good written works you can use as a starting point (you might want to check out something from http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/792) and there are several people who have put together some good intro material on YouTube (For example Lawson English <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist ?list=PL6601A198DF14788D" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/playlist ?list=PL6601A198DF14788D and the late James Robertson https://www.youtu be.com/playlist?list=PL61A023880D3529DB have put together some basic stuff that should be helpful)
Something I'd highly recommend: if you find a tutorial you like, find out what version of whatever dialect they based the tutorial on and try to use that *exact* version (or at least get as close as you can: if something was written with Squeak 3.x in mind, don't use Squeak 4.x to try to follow along etc.) This will minimize the pain of trying to mentally map the tutorial to a different VM/image with even a slightly different feature set and UI. When you're just getting started, that's not the time you want to be worried about using the bleeding edge VM or image. If you can't figure out what version to use, post details and ask on the lists as either someone who used it or possibly even the person who created it might be reading.
Sincerely,
Joe.
Hope this helps, Phil
On May 6, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Kirk Fraser [via Smalltalk] <[hidden
email]> wrote:
Byte magazine which published the balloon concept for Smalltalk
rising above the ivory tower of a lighthouse guiding the way in a sea of computer languages is out of business. I think it is time for the Squeak balloon to be grounded to connect with the reality of why computer languages exist - to make things easy for application developers. So I propose all Squeak developers stop "improving" Squeak for one year and spend the time writing useful applications in Squeak. That could lead to a basket of new ideas for next year. Maybe make this a regularly scheduled event - a half year for applications and a half year for Squeak?
The reason motivating this suggestion is on the advice of a Squeak-
Dev member, I downloaded the latest all in one and to my chagrin, I found an improvement that made Squeak as worthless as a balloon full of machine gun holes. The Workspace window gets halos with a right mouse click on a standard 2 button laptop mouse. So I'll return to an older Squeak for now.
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Yes but I don't have a website to download from. So I'll send it via email.
On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Joseph Alotta joseph.alotta@gmail.com wrote:
Kirk,
I would be interested in looking at your balance tree algorithm.
Do you have some code that I can inspect?
Sincerely,
Joe.
On May 7, 2016, at 12:42 AM, Kirk Fraser [via Smalltalk] <[hidden email]
http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4893854&i=0> wrote:
Newbies, I learned by examining a Dictionary until I understood how it
works and that got me a job. I also got a little help from an old college chum after I started a Smalltalk special interest group of the Portland PC Club. Beyond that it was learning by doing, hiring an offshore consultant for a special project to make a database using a Balanced Tree algorithm (which oddly is not part of Squeak when that one data structure could replace most of the rest of them. Then there was the occasional help by Squeak experts on various things like how to turn off preferences or where to find code to work with a camera. A big help has been focusing my attention on writing a new computer language in Smalltalk which requires lots of work that most programmers never do. But I still can't count myself as an expert because I don't know lots of important things yet like how to use FFI or how to write an FF or how to make Squeak work on a Windows 98 computer which i have to use to run a CNC machine.
Experts, my OP was mainly to talk you into doing some real useful work
on Squeak instead of aggrandizing yourselves on work that is not truly useful - you know replacing all the collections with a Balanced Tree might be nice or making sharp examples of Secure Sockets or FFI that people can use or get Squeak repaired so it can work on Win 98 or without Halos replacing menus or how to make most of the programs one might download from CNet but I guess it rings a bell with the real newbies that there isn't enough help anywhere. To translate that, I as an intermediate programmer need to be taught how to be senior programmer. So we need better mentoring for everyone.
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Phil (list) <[hidden email]>wrote: Joe,
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 13:23 -0700, Joseph Alotta wrote:
I am a beginner with Squeak and the problem I am facing is not knowing how to go about using the tools available.
Having gone through this myself not too many years ago, yet before things really started to get crazy (in good and bad ways) in the Squeak world, I appreciate what you're saying. Squeak and its dialects can seem pretty impenetrable until you learn 'the basics' which unfortunately are a bit of a moving target (esp. re: the tools and UI) depending on what you're trying to learn/do.
There is a lot of language information, but not a “here’s what we do” best practices for developers. I don’t mean coding, but I mean, how to find the resource I need. How to build your project in pieces that you can test, etc.
This is where things probably get pretty tough once you get beyond the absolute basics. In its effort to get better, things are constantly being broken in ways that are often no big deal once you get over the hump and learn your way around. However, they're changing enough to 'break' a lot of the existing tutorials and they're changing often enough that said tutorials don't seem to be getting updated to reflect the changes in later releases. As if this weren't enough, there are factions with different views on overall direction which directly impacts things like best practices and is why we have different 'distros' ala Squeak/Pharo/Cuis/etc.
What I was looking for is an Apprentice kind of relationship, but nobody seems interested or nearby.
That's probably going to be difficult as Smalltalk has a very small population of programmers vs. other languages. So getting someone with experience to spend 1-on-1 time with is going to be difficult and/or expensive. Your best bet to get started is to read the mailing lists (I would recommend this list, squeak-dev, and cuis as they are all good places to ask basic questions) and just ask when you get stuck. There are a few good written works you can use as a starting point (you might want to check out something from http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/792) and there are several people who have put together some good intro material on YouTube (For example Lawson English <a href="
https://www.youtube.com/playlist ?list=PL6601A198DF14788D" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/playlist
?list=PL6601A198DF14788D and the late James Robertson https://www.youtu be.com/playlist?list=PL61A023880D3529DB have put together some basic stuff that should be helpful)
Something I'd highly recommend: if you find a tutorial you like, find out what version of whatever dialect they based the tutorial on and try to use that *exact* version (or at least get as close as you can: if something was written with Squeak 3.x in mind, don't use Squeak 4.x to try to follow along etc.) This will minimize the pain of trying to mentally map the tutorial to a different VM/image with even a slightly different feature set and UI. When you're just getting started, that's not the time you want to be worried about using the bleeding edge VM or image. If you can't figure out what version to use, post details and ask on the lists as either someone who used it or possibly even the person who created it might be reading.
Sincerely,
Joe.
Hope this helps, Phil
On May 6, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Kirk Fraser [via Smalltalk] <[hidden
email]> wrote:
Byte magazine which published the balloon concept for Smalltalk
rising above the ivory tower of a lighthouse guiding the way in a sea of computer languages is out of business. I think it is time for the Squeak balloon to be grounded to connect with the reality of why computer languages exist - to make things easy for application developers. So I propose all Squeak developers stop "improving" Squeak for one year and spend the time writing useful applications in Squeak. That could lead to a basket of new ideas for next year. Maybe make this a regularly scheduled event - a half year for applications and a half year for Squeak?
The reason motivating this suggestion is on the advice of a Squeak-
Dev member, I downloaded the latest all in one and to my chagrin, I found an improvement that made Squeak as worthless as a balloon full of machine gun holes. The Workspace window gets halos with a right mouse click on a standard 2 button laptop mouse. So I'll return to an older Squeak for now.
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On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 12:02:52PM -0700, Kirk Fraser wrote:
Byte magazine which published the balloon concept for Smalltalk rising above the ivory tower of a lighthouse guiding the way in a sea of computer languages is out of business. I think it is time for the Squeak balloon to be grounded to connect with the reality of why computer languages exist - to make things easy for application developers.
I hope that you do not truly believe this, that Squeak should exist for the benefit of application developers. What about the 99.99% of people on the planet who are not application developers?
After all, it's not as if the application developers of the world aren't already focusing enough attention on their own self-centered interests, and it's not as though the world really needs yet another software productivity tool.
To me that is what makes Squeak special. It is a tool for thinking and learning, and it is accessible at people with all sorts of interests and ideas. It is not just for programmers and application developers.
I certainly do not want to discourage anyone from writing useful applications in Squeak, that would be great. It's just that to me, it would be really discouraging if Squeak got turned into a "development tool", and disappointing if people did not see its role as something more than just another programming language.
Just my personal POV.
Dave
Dave,
You can dismiss it as my own personal mid-life crisis if you like. But as you have offered your suggestions for reprogramming my personal point of view, let me offer some for yours.
What about the 99.99% of people on the
planet who are not application developers?
I see all people as application developers in the wetware of their own minds and hearts. They all need but not all want help to program themselves to perfection which can unlock miracles that Jesus Christ's gospel speaks of.
Although I consider myself world class in Bible analysis, I find nobody cares. So as my time on the planet is limited, I'm using Squeak to build an Artificial Intelligence to encapsulate my level of understanding so children in the future can learn to meet and exceed my skills, which may help end world hunger, poverty, illiteracy,, crime, terrorism, and war.
I think part of that vision is what motivated Alan Kay to pour himself into trying to make the world's kids become programmers through EToys and others similarly with Scratch.
To me that is what makes Squeak special. It is a tool for thinking and
learning, and it is accessible at people with all sorts of interests and ideas. It is not just for programmers and application developers.
Often I must fight my imperfect dreams and pray for the perfect. In this case I suggest analyzing your statement until you understand the oxymoron. I can write a one word text file that is accessible to all sorts of people but so what? What matters is what Squeak can do for me and others who download it. With the 2-3 button mouse preference error Squeak is no better than a screen saver image to the majority even if Squeak is otherwise so good it should have been the first computer language instead of Fortran and thousands of other languages should never have been invented. In the 5 computer stores I frequent, I can't recall seeing a laptop with a 3 button mouse. You are asking me and 99.99% of the world to think so highly of Squeak even in its dysfunctional state that they worship it like the people did in the story of the emperor with no clothes.
It's just that to me, it would be really discouraging if Squeak got
turned into a "development tool", and disappointing if people did not see its role as something more than just another programming language.
If it is not a superior development tool then it is just another programming language but only when it works. The lack of development in Smalltalk is why it is dying like human languages such as Esperanto or Latin. See http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyIsSmalltalkDead If Squeak gets used in more viral applications then people will get more interested in learning it.
Kirk Fraser
On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 10:38 AM, David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com wrote:
On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 12:02:52PM -0700, Kirk Fraser wrote:
Byte magazine which published the balloon concept for Smalltalk rising above the ivory tower of a lighthouse guiding the way in a sea of
computer
languages is out of business. I think it is time for the Squeak balloon
to
be grounded to connect with the reality of why computer languages exist - to make things easy for application developers.
I hope that you do not truly believe this, that Squeak should exist for the benefit of application developers. What about the 99.99% of people on the planet who are not application developers?
After all, it's not as if the application developers of the world aren't already focusing enough attention on their own self-centered interests, and it's not as though the world really needs yet another software productivity tool.
To me that is what makes Squeak special. It is a tool for thinking and learning, and it is accessible at people with all sorts of interests and ideas. It is not just for programmers and application developers.
I certainly do not want to discourage anyone from writing useful applications in Squeak, that would be great. It's just that to me, it would be really discouraging if Squeak got turned into a "development tool", and disappointing if people did not see its role as something more than just another programming language.
Just my personal POV.
Dave
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Kirk,
I like your ideas about what is a "developer" :-)
Thanks, Dave
On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 12:11:19PM -0700, Kirk Fraser wrote:
Dave,
You can dismiss it as my own personal mid-life crisis if you like. But as you have offered your suggestions for reprogramming my personal point of view, let me offer some for yours.
What about the 99.99% of people on the
planet who are not application developers?
I see all people as application developers in the wetware of their own minds and hearts. They all need but not all want help to program themselves to perfection which can unlock miracles that Jesus Christ's gospel speaks of.
Although I consider myself world class in Bible analysis, I find nobody cares. So as my time on the planet is limited, I'm using Squeak to build an Artificial Intelligence to encapsulate my level of understanding so children in the future can learn to meet and exceed my skills, which may help end world hunger, poverty, illiteracy,, crime, terrorism, and war.
I think part of that vision is what motivated Alan Kay to pour himself into trying to make the world's kids become programmers through EToys and others similarly with Scratch.
To me that is what makes Squeak special. It is a tool for thinking and
learning, and it is accessible at people with all sorts of interests and ideas. It is not just for programmers and application developers.
Often I must fight my imperfect dreams and pray for the perfect. In this case I suggest analyzing your statement until you understand the oxymoron. I can write a one word text file that is accessible to all sorts of people but so what? What matters is what Squeak can do for me and others who download it. With the 2-3 button mouse preference error Squeak is no better than a screen saver image to the majority even if Squeak is otherwise so good it should have been the first computer language instead of Fortran and thousands of other languages should never have been invented. In the 5 computer stores I frequent, I can't recall seeing a laptop with a 3 button mouse. You are asking me and 99.99% of the world to think so highly of Squeak even in its dysfunctional state that they worship it like the people did in the story of the emperor with no clothes.
It's just that to me, it would be really discouraging if Squeak got
turned into a "development tool", and disappointing if people did not see its role as something more than just another programming language.
If it is not a superior development tool then it is just another programming language but only when it works. The lack of development in Smalltalk is why it is dying like human languages such as Esperanto or Latin. See http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyIsSmalltalkDead If Squeak gets used in more viral applications then people will get more interested in learning it.
Kirk Fraser
On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 10:38 AM, David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com wrote:
On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 12:02:52PM -0700, Kirk Fraser wrote:
Byte magazine which published the balloon concept for Smalltalk rising above the ivory tower of a lighthouse guiding the way in a sea of
computer
languages is out of business. I think it is time for the Squeak balloon
to
be grounded to connect with the reality of why computer languages exist - to make things easy for application developers.
I hope that you do not truly believe this, that Squeak should exist for the benefit of application developers. What about the 99.99% of people on the planet who are not application developers?
After all, it's not as if the application developers of the world aren't already focusing enough attention on their own self-centered interests, and it's not as though the world really needs yet another software productivity tool.
To me that is what makes Squeak special. It is a tool for thinking and learning, and it is accessible at people with all sorts of interests and ideas. It is not just for programmers and application developers.
I certainly do not want to discourage anyone from writing useful applications in Squeak, that would be great. It's just that to me, it would be really discouraging if Squeak got turned into a "development tool", and disappointing if people did not see its role as something more than just another programming language.
Just my personal POV.
Dave
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Hi,
For me the idea of the computer as tool at the service of creative human spirit and for children from 6 to 100 years, stated by the Smalltalk creators, mean that we should have a continuum between children, developers, other adults, elders, build with Smalltalk. Because this is not possible yet, what we have are several projects like Squeak, Cuis and Pharo, inspired by Smalltalk and serving different interest and people. Despite of not being ideal, this is far better that having "Squeak for children" and non Smalltalk technologies for everything else. In this way you can choose your Smalltalk inspired/based environment for you and the people you're (co-)designing for, without the wars between serving one as precluding the possibility to serving the others.
Cheers,
Offray
On 07/05/16 12:38, David T. Lewis wrote:
On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 12:02:52PM -0700, Kirk Fraser wrote:
Byte magazine which published the balloon concept for Smalltalk rising above the ivory tower of a lighthouse guiding the way in a sea of computer languages is out of business. I think it is time for the Squeak balloon to be grounded to connect with the reality of why computer languages exist - to make things easy for application developers.
I hope that you do not truly believe this, that Squeak should exist for the benefit of application developers. What about the 99.99% of people on the planet who are not application developers?
After all, it's not as if the application developers of the world aren't already focusing enough attention on their own self-centered interests, and it's not as though the world really needs yet another software productivity tool.
To me that is what makes Squeak special. It is a tool for thinking and learning, and it is accessible at people with all sorts of interests and ideas. It is not just for programmers and application developers.
I certainly do not want to discourage anyone from writing useful applications in Squeak, that would be great. It's just that to me, it would be really discouraging if Squeak got turned into a "development tool", and disappointing if people did not see its role as something more than just another programming language.
Just my personal POV.
Dave
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Dave that was a great post and I agree 100%
One of the things Stef says is that "Pharo is yours" but of course that applies for all free software out there
So if you want to take Pharo or Squeak to any direction you are more than welcomed and both communities are very friendly towards any kind of contribution. But in end we all use Squeak or Pharo or both because it's a ton of fun.
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