[Seaside] Re: What do you think about Ruby on Rails ?

[stephane ducasse]

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> <ot>
>   <ot>
>
>     Well, terseman is nowhere in sight, and somebody has to start
>     somewhere, so...in a Squeak startup script, to be run headless as
>     in "squeak -headless squeak.image file:///foo/bar/ 
> myStartupScript",
>     you could do this:
>
>         | dirStack stdout |
>         stdout _ FileStream fileNamed: '/dev/tty'.
>         dirStack _ OrderedCollection with: FileDirectory default.
>         [dirStack isEmpty] whileFalse:
>             [ | dir |
>             dir _ dirStack first.
>             dirStack addAll: (dir entries
>                 select: [:d | d isDirectory]
>                 thenCollect: [:dd | FileDirectory on: dir pathName,  
> dir slash, dd name]).
>             (dir entries reject: [:d | d isDirectory])
>                 do: [:f | stdout nextPutAll: dir pathName, dir  
> slash, f name , ': ', f fileSize asString, String lf].
>             dirStack removeFirst].
>         Smalltalk snapshot: false andQuit: true
>
>     I'm assuming that "Output" refers to stdout in the hypothetical  
> example,
>     and of course in Seaside you would be doing something else,  
> perhaps a
>     table of file names and file sizes I suppose. But as long as we  
> are
>     this far off topic, what's the difference?
>
>   </ot>
> </ot>

I like that :)
I often try to do unix script and wish I could debug them.
I would like to see it much more compact. I think that having a good  
abstraction about file/folder/ftp.... would be nice.
Then with a tiny kernel that can be rebuilt .... and the possibility  
to embed squeak in C... ;)

Stef