Smalltalk & Squeak featured on Slashdot

Jerry Jackson jrj at channelpoint.com
Thu Apr 19 14:13:50 UTC 2001


> 
> 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).





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