Code Shopping Support in Squeak

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Thu Mar 15 01:26:35 UTC 2001


Hmm, it's page number *4* on the swiki :)

	http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/4

It's called "Programming with Squeak's User Interface".  Perhaps it
could use a better title...

-Lex



Dan Shafer <dshafer at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Back when Parc Place was a new company, I interviewed Adele Goldberg for a
> profile. I remember asking her what the programming process in Smalltalk felt
> like. She paused for a few moments and then said something like, "I spend a
> significant part of my programming time doing code-shopping, looking for
> existing methods that do a particular thing I need to do." When I asked how she
> did that, she gave me a couple of tips about searching for methods, then said,
> "Most of the time, I open my door and yell down the hallway, 'Hey! Anybody got
> a method that does this?'"
> 
> I am at least vaguely aware that Squeak has implemented some coolness that
> allows us to find methods a tad more effectively than in the past. It would be
> a great boon to the community if someone would point them out. I'd be happy to
> return the favor by following up and writing something on the topic for the Swiki.
> 
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