Smalltalk & Squeak featured on Slashdot
Alan Kay
Alan.Kay at disney.com
Thu Apr 19 15:34:22 UTC 2001
Jerry --
At 8:13 AM -0600 4/19/01, Jerry Jackson wrote:
> >
>> The only IDEs better than Squeak's are in other Smalltalk's, in my
>> opinion. I took a liking to VisualAge for Smalltalk during
>> my internship
>> at Progressive, and was a little bit annoyed by Squeak when I
>> would come
>> home and be using it, rather than VAST. But then school
>> started, and I
>> was back to XEmacs. I figured that there had to be something
>> better for
>> C++ and Java.
>>
>
>The Squeak IDE is definitely tops of anything I've seen in a long time. In
>fact, it's
>eerily reminiscent of the Interlisp-D environment (which I still routinely
>annoy co-workers by raving about -- usually during the denigration of some
>ugly wart in a current IDE).
Guess where the Interlisp-D environment came from ..... and when ...
and what code was used to do its window system .....
Cheers,
Alan
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