[sqh] How close is SmallTalk Express to Squeak syntactically?
Bruce O'Neel
bruce_oneel at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 24 11:31:00 UTC 1998
Hi,
I've also used On To Smalltalk by PHW and found it good. It was
pretty much perfect up to the files chapter, which I didn't really do,
and then the GUI chapter seemed wrong. I am, oh so slowly, learning
how to get GUIs to come up.
cheers
bruce
Jake Hamby <jehamby at lightside.com> wrote:
>
> Laurence Rozier wrote:
> >
> > Asymptotically Approaching Harmony wrote:
> >
> > > Hi folks;
> > >
> > > After doing an Amazon search I just found a book called _On to
> > > Smalltalk_ by Patrick Henry Winston - I really like his style,
_On to
> > > Java_ is one of my fave Java books by far.
>
> I ordered this book from Amazon.com and am also extremely impressed
with
> it. I'm still very new to Smalltalk so hopefully some Squeak experts
> can expand on my comments below about problems with using the book to
> learn Squeak.
>
> > > So, how close is Smalltalk Express, the dialect he uses in the
book,
> > > to Squeak?
> >
> > Extremely close.
>
> In addition to GUI differences, file I/O is also handled quite
> differently from either Smalltalk (though it's a little closer to
> VisualWorks). While I was able to figure out the basics of file I/O
in
> Squeak through trial and error, and looking at the Squeak source, I
> couldn't figure out an easy way to approximate the nextWord message
> supported by Smalltalk Express. I'll probably write my own nextWord
so
> I can get past chapter 22.
>
> The class browser is more similar to VisualWorks than to Smalltalk
> Express, so it may be helpful to jump to chapter 38 and read up on
that
> difference. I haven't looked at the GUI stuff yet, but hopefully it's
> close enough to VisualWorks that I'll be able to figure it out without
> much trouble.
>
> -Jake
>
>
==
Bruce O'Neel - beoneel at acm.org
http://homepage.iprolink.ch/~bioneel
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