Results of proposal to create squeak-help list...

Dwight Hughes dwighth at ipa.net
Wed Nov 11 06:08:09 UTC 1998


Benoit St-Jean wrote:
> 
> At 14:19 98-11-10 -0600, you wrote:
> >I wanted to see if there were enough people interested in participating
> >in such a list to make it a worthwhile addition to the original Squeak
> >list -- instead of just creating an abandoned notion like squeak-annc --
> >and to see if it was worth asking any of the Squeak list maintainers to
> >take the time and trouble to create such a thing in the first place,
> >since I do not have the webserver resources available to do so myself
> >[otherwise I would just go ahead and do so]. I do not take
> >"volunteering" someone else's time lightly.
> 
> It could even contain some "basic" smalltalk help about the language itself
> to help newbies overcome this "strange" language... :)

Absolutely. My proposal was that a squeak-help list would cover the
basics of how to start programming in Squeak/Smalltalk and such things
as "why doesn't this code work?". Of course, such things as "dang this
code is ugly -- is there a better way to do this?" could also be part of
this.

-- Dwight





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