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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