>>>>> "Dino" == Dino  <gte949e at prism.gatech.edu> writes:

Dino> You wouldn't happen to be the guy who wrote "Learning Perl"
Dino> published by O'Reilly?  I really loved that book...  that was
Dino> the book that started my love for Perl.  I didn't think any Perl
Dino> hacks would enjoy Squeak...  most Perl jocks I know are low
Dino> level operating systems type people...

Yes, that's me.  After 22+ years professionally in the industry, I've
gotten around a bit. :)

I played with Smalltalk-80 in 1982 on a 68000-based system at
Tektronix (the magnolia?).  I then went on to ServioLogic (now
Gemstone, Inc), worked/played for many hours on a Xerox Dolphin
learning to enjoy ST80, and was one of the few vocal proponents for
making the Gemstone language "smalltalk plus" rather than
"smalltalk-like" as was first suggested by the architects.  I suspect
that changed saved Servio's hiney on trying to get into the market.

Unfortunately, Servio was running VMS instead of Unix for a
development environment, and I left there to go play with Unix again.
Now I could kick myself for having left the Smalltalk world.

At least I got to say that I learned Object-Oriented programming the
right way. :)

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