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2nd Draft of About section
by Larry Trutter 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

I will be putting the draft with links into the test site in a couple of days. Jason was able to give me access and I was able to login. Thanks, Jason! Right now, the draft is in plain text format without links. Some contents of sections were rewritten or moved. So I took a chance in redoing a couple of sections so either it might be the right direction or I probably went too far and should have left some sections alone. I tried to stay close to the vision provided by Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls (ie. The Future of Squeak). Any constructive feedback, good or bad, is welcome. Only the follow sections are not changed: Squeak is free with a liberal license Squeak Support What it is not 2nd Draft: About Squeak is highly portable open-source Smalltalk with powerful multimedia facilities. Squeak is the vehicle of a wide range of projects, ranging from educational platforms to commercial web application development. Other noteworthy aspects of Squeak include: · real-time sound and music synthesis written entirely in Smalltalk · extensions of BitBlt to handle color of any depth and anti-aliased image rotation and scaling · network access support that allows simple construction of servers and other useful facilities · bit-identical execution on many platforms (Windows, Mac, Unix, and others) · a compact object format that typically requires only a single word of overhead per object · a simple yet efficient incremental garbage collector for 32-bit direct pointers with efficient bulk-mutation of objects Each release includes platform-independent support for color, sound, and network access, with complete source code. Originally developed on the Macintosh, members of its user community have since ported it to numerous other platforms including Windows NT, XP Windows CE (it runs on the Cassiopeia and the HP320LX), all common flavors of UNIX, Acorn RiscOS, and a bare chip (the Mitsubishi M32R/D). What is Squeak? Squeak is based on Smalltalk which was created more than 35 years ago. Smalltalk defined the term object orientation and is the first language in which everything is built from objects. Smalltalk is deeply inspired by ideas from Simula, Sketchpad and Lisp. Even today, Smalltalk sets the bar for object oriented dynamically strongly typed interactive languages and environments. Unlike the standard static, file-based approach of other languages such as Ruby or Python, Squeak offers a true uniform fully reflective environment - real live objects. In this environment, when anyone can make a change to an object, its behavior changes immediately without having to restart the system. You can even modify or create objects while the application is running. Squeak includes class libraries and virtual machine plugins for very advanced multimedia including anti-aliased 2D and accelerated 3D graphics, real-time sound and music synthesis, MPEG2 video and much more. In addition, Squeak has one of the most advanced fully reflective development environments ever created with over 600 addon packages available for single click download and installation. Squeak runs bit-identical images across its entire portability base, greatly facilitating collaboration in diverse environments. Any image file will run on any interpreter even if it was saved on completely different hardware, with a completely different OS (or no OS at all!). What is Cool about Squeak "The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas." - Alan Kay Squeak stands alone as a practical computing environment in which a developer, researcher, professor, or motivated student can examine source code for every part of the system, including graphics primitives and the virtual machine itself. One can make changes immediately and without needing to see or deal with any language other than Smalltalk. Our diverse and very active community includes teachers, students, business application developers, researchers, music performers, interactive media artists, web developers and many others. Those individuals use Squeak for a wide variety of computing tasks, ranging from child education to innovative research in computer science, or creation of advanced dynamic web sites using the highly acclaimed continuation based Seaside framework. A Brief History of Squeak Squeak began, very simply, with the needs of a research group at Apple. The goal was to build a system using a language as expressive and immediate as Smalltalk to pursue various application goals such as prototypical educational software, user interface experiments and another run at the Dynabook concept. The core team behind Squeak includes Dan Ingalls, Alan Kay, Ted Kaehler, and Scott Wallace. All of this has attracted many of the best and most experienced Smalltalk programmers and implementers in the world. Philosophy The fundamental philosophy of Squeak is to write everything in Smalltalk. All of the source code in Squeak, including the virtual machine interpreter, is available to see, understand, modify, and extend for whatever purpose. It is a genuine, complete, compact, efficient and robust Smalltalk environment. Squeaks virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk, making it easy to debug, analyze, and change. To achieve practical performance, a translator produces an equivalent C program whose performance is comparable to commercial Smalltalks. Squeak is used as a computing tool for research on how computers can be used to enhance and amplify learning. Specifically, work in using computers to find new ways to reach children with powerful ideas of math and science. Squeak provides a computer environment, such as Etoys, that help people learn ideas by building and playing around with them. Many meaningful and motivating projects helps them develop as logical thinkers, and understand how some technologies, that they encounter in their everyday lives, work. The Etoys tutorial illustrates an example of a learning environment where students increase their knowledge and wisdom by experimentation and experience rather than by the traditional, passive reception of lectures and limited feedback loops. -Larry Trutter _________________________________________________________________ Invite your Hotmail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://sp…

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Suggestion for Squeak Website
by Ruben Bakker 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Hi! As the author of eCompletion I really appreciate the link and Screenshot of eCompletion on the http://www.squeak.org/Screenshots/ page. As I have moved from http://homepage.mac.com/monique_bakker/squeak/eCompletion.html a while ago, it would be very helpful if you could change the link to http://uncomplex.net/ecompletion/. Thank you! Kind regards, Ruben

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FW: [News] Re: Taking the Beat of Cadence
by Ron Teitelbaum 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

-----Original Message----- From: news-bounces(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:news-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Klaus D. Witzel Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:14 AM To: The mailing list for the Squeak News Team Subject: Re: [News] Re: Taking the Beat of Cadence Hi Ron, on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:29:51 +0100, you wrote: > I believe there is a companies that develop smalltalk link on the esug > site. > I know there are a few other web sites that list companies and jobs > available. Maybe it would be a good addition to squeak.org? No no, don't replicate that! Just make sure that squeak.org links them and write a sentence why the link is so kewl. /Klaus > Ron > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: news-bounces(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:news- >> bounces(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Michael Haupt >> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:12 AM >> To: The mailing list for the Squeak News Team >> Subject: Re: [News] Re: Taking the Beat of Cadence >> >> Hi again, >> >> On 1/30/07, Michael Haupt <mhaupt(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > Anyway, there's another nice story that can be told when people come >> > around with the old claim that Smalltalk just isn't used in practice >> > anywhere. :-) >> >> which reminds me... >> >> ...is there someplace on the web where a collection of actual (and >> up-to-date) Smalltalk success stories is available and maintained? If >> not, could we not set one up? I frequently run into trouble when >> people ask me about such success stories, and don't want to disappoint >> them (or concede a point to them, that is). >> >> Best, >> >> Michael >> _______________________________________________ >> News mailing list >> News(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org >> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/news > > > _______________________________________________ > News mailing list > News(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/news _______________________________________________ News mailing list News(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/news

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RE: [News] Re: Taking the Beat of Cadence
by Ron Teitelbaum 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

I believe there is a companies that develop smalltalk link on the esug site. I know there are a few other web sites that list companies and jobs available. Maybe it would be a good addition to squeak.org? Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: news-bounces(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:news- > bounces(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Michael Haupt > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:12 AM > To: The mailing list for the Squeak News Team > Subject: Re: [News] Re: Taking the Beat of Cadence > > Hi again, > > On 1/30/07, Michael Haupt <mhaupt(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Anyway, there's another nice story that can be told when people come > > around with the old claim that Smalltalk just isn't used in practice > > anywhere. :-) > > which reminds me... > > ...is there someplace on the web where a collection of actual (and > up-to-date) Smalltalk success stories is available and maintained? If > not, could we not set one up? I frequently run into trouble when > people ask me about such success stories, and don't want to disappoint > them (or concede a point to them, that is). > > Best, > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > News mailing list > News(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/news

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[Fwd: Re: OpenCroquet Update]
by Brad Fuller 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

>From Darius: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: OpenCroquet Update Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:59:27 -0800 From: Darius Clarke <socinian(a)gmail.com> To: Brad Fuller <brad(a)sonaural.com> References: <sympa.1170083476.7532.545(a)duke.edu> <dc6cab5b0701290802s4ceaa11av18d1f13004b0520c(a)mail.gmail.com> <45BE2658.9050909(a)sonaural.com> Hi Brad, The wiki should be opening up to public access/update in a few weeks I think. So, anyone can add it after that. Cheers, Darius On 1/29/07, * Brad Fuller* <brad(a)sonaural.com <mailto:brad@sonaural.com>> wrote: Darius Clarke wrote: > Clarence, > > We're transitioning web sites. > Keep looking a http://www.croquetconsortium.org for more info in > the next couple weeks. Will http://www.croquetproject.org/ will be going away? Darius, Can we get a mention of squeak on the new croquetconsortium.org <http://croquetconsortium.org> website? Especially in the first paragraph and under VM. And any place you see it appropriate. Also, can we get a link back to the squeak.org <http://squeak.org> page? thanks, brad

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Re: [Webteam] What others are saying about Squeak
by Brad Fuller 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Karl wrote: > Brad Fuller wrote: >> What do you think about creating a page, or a portion of a page (don't >> know where this would go) about what others are saying about squeak? >> >> Here's a favorable review: >> >> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/09/21/learning_smalltalk.html >> >> If there are others, (I think there are several good reviews and blog >> mentions about seaside and dabbledb) it would be a nice page to promote >> squeak. Don't you think? >> >> >> > Sounds good, Brad. Create such a page. Great. What should it be called? Any ideas? All: Please pass me some links to favorable reviews about squeak or squeak applications and I'll put them on the page. Also, if you could pass a one or two-liner about the review, that'd be great. > > On another note: I looked trough the site yesterday and I think most of > the text on the pages should be revisited. > They are either out of date or missing care and attention. > > What do you other guys think ? Good idea. We might start at looking at who's assigned to which page and making sure they still want to contribute. There are also some pages with no contributors. Volunteers anyone???? -- brad fuller www.bradfuller.com

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Re: OpenCroquet Update
by Brad Fuller 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Darius Clarke wrote: > Clarence, > > We're transitioning web sites. > Keep looking a http://www.croquetconsortium.org for more info in the > next couple weeks. Will http://www.croquetproject.org/ will be going away? Darius, Can we get a mention of squeak on the new croquetconsortium.org website? Especially in the first paragraph and under VM. And any place you see it appropriate. Also, can we get a link back to the squeak.org page? thanks, brad > > Cheers, > Darius -- brad fuller http://www.Sonaural.com/ +1 (408) 799-6124

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Croquet Consortium
by Brad Fuller 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

This wiki does a good job, without fancy marketing and not _too_ much work, showing a good first page of information about croquet and how dynamic the development and usage is. The site seems to still be under development: http://epic.bu.edu/CroquetConsortium/wiki/index.php/Main_Page I like the "Did you know?" section. Although, i would have liked to see the word "squeak" in the first section. Especially under the text about VM. I'll send them a message and see if we can have "squeak" added and also a link to squeak.org. -- brad fuller www.bradfuller.com

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Gotta say it again: Looks great!
by Göran Krampe 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Hi folks! I was just surfin over to OLPC, back to squeak.org etc and darn, I think we have a great web site now! Two things standing out IMHO: 1. The Weekly entries on the right side - makes it so much lively and nice. 2. "Noteworthy uses of Squeak" - also good to show that Squeak is involved in other high profile things. Just wanted to make sure you guys (I haven't done anything in a while) feel appreciated. :) regards, Göran

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What others are saying about Squeak
by Brad Fuller 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

What do you think about creating a page, or a portion of a page (don't know where this would go) about what others are saying about squeak? Here's a favorable review: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/09/21/learning_smalltalk.html If there are others, (I think there are several good reviews and blog mentions about seaside and dabbledb) it would be a nice page to promote squeak. Don't you think? -- brad fuller http://www.Sonaural.com/ +1 (408) 799-6124

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