reference manual need

Rosemary Michelle Simpson rms at cs.brown.edu
Sun May 20 16:00:52 UTC 2001


I am coming to the Squeak/Smalltalk environment from a previous 
life using the Lisp Machine environment.  Squeak's environment is 
wonderful and contains many of the tools such as browsers and 
inspectors that made working with the Lisp Machine such a joy.  
There is one major, and imho, very troublesome difference 
however.

One of the things that made using the Lisp Machine environment so 
powerful was the combination of the comprehensive Lisp Machine 
Manual (or Orangual so-called because of the color of its cover) 
with the powerful online tools.  Squeak has the online tools but not 
the reference manual.  This means you are constrained to one kind 
of, very narrow, view and can never get the comprehensive view 
you get from a paper manual such as the Orangual.  Does anyone but 
me care?  

R.





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