reference manual need

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at disney.com
Sun May 20 19:32:29 UTC 2001


Just as with LISP, this community works on stuff that it thinks the 
community needs. There are great needs for various kinds of manuals, 
and so it would be great if you could help write up some of the 
things that need to be documented.

There is also quite a bit of documentation of various kinds on the 
swikis. It could use some organization and an editor, but there is 
lots of useful stuff available.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 12:00 PM -0400 5/20/01, Rosemary Michelle Simpson wrote:
>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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