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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