Earlier this semester I gave a talk in the SDSU CS colloquia series titled
Squeak: Inventing the future again, or why I stopped using Java. One goal
of the talk was to show how on paper Squeak and Java might seem similar
(VM, byte codes, class libraries, OO language, cross-platform, IDE, etc)
while demonstrating the differences between them. The talk was done using
Squeak with PowerPoint slides. (Try doing that in Java). I demonstrated
things like flash, Alice, workspaces, browsers, and morphic. While this is
all very routine stuff in Squeak, it made a big impression on the audience.

I showed parts of the talk to a few people at Camp Smalltalk at OOPSLA. They
were interested in getting a copy of the talk. The Squeak image containing
the talk is available via anonymous ftp at:

ftp://rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/whitney/squeak/talkImage/Squeaktalk.tar.gz




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