Our website real-time statistics caught another nice blog post mentioning Squeak:
http://www.h3rald.com/articles/10-programming-languages#squeak
"Squeak has become one of the most popular Smalltalk implementations available. It has been used in some very interesting projects:
* EToys, a kids-oriented but powerful development environment built in Squeak, was included as part of the educational sofware suite of the OLPC. * Seaside is a modern and very productive web framework running on Squeak. * Croquet is a development solution to build complex, multi-user virtual worlds.
If you ask Randal Schwartz, he’ll explain you why Squeak and Smalltalk are at least worth a look. Personally, while I’m attracted by Smalltalk’s unique approach to programming and its friendly syntax, I am still a bit overwhelmed by the way it works. Squeak, and Smalltalk in general, runs inside (literally) a virtual machine written in Squeak itself. This means that:
* You write your code inside Squeak * You debug, inspect and interact your code inside squeak * You run your code inside Squeak * You can install Squeak on virtually any platform, including mobile phones, fairly easily
Everything lives inside Squeak. It’s very weird to picture this without actually trying it, so I suggest you download it and give it a try: it will definitely be an unusual but intriguing experience.
Smalltalk takes programming to a whole different level, which is simply unimaginable for other languages. In return, it asks you to fully embrace the Smalltalk way of doing things, according to which external text editors, external version control systems and other common tools familiar to traditional programmers simply loose their purpose. To get you started…
* Official Squeak Web Site * Squeak by Example * SqueakLand * Ruby’s Roots: Smalltalk Comeback and Randal Schwartz on Smalltalk * FLOSS Weekly 29: Dan Ingalls"
"Janko" == Janko Mivšek janko.mivsek@eranova.si writes:
Janko> Our website real-time statistics caught another nice blog post mentioning Janko> Squeak: [...] Janko> If you ask Randal Schwartz, he’ll explain you why Squeak and Smalltalk are at Janko> least worth a look.
Yes... my blog search for my name, as well as my blog search for smalltalk, both picked this one up. Cool.
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