How to learn Squeak
Doug Way
dway at riskmetrics.com
Thu Oct 11 18:31:14 UTC 2001
Mark Guzdial wrote:
>
> >On Wednesday 10 October 2001 05:41 pm, Ed Heil wrote:
> >
> > > I guess what I'm dying for is an O'Reilly And Associates "Squeak In A
> > > Nutshell" book or something. Just something that sits you down and
> > > says "these are the things you need to think about to make yourself a
> > > Morphic application."
>
> Noel Rappin approached O'Reilly about doing exactly "Squeak In A
> Nutshell" before we even started the NuBlue book, and they turned him
> down. The argument that they gave him was that ORA focuses on
> UNIX-based open source software, and they didn't put Squeak in that
> camp.
Hmm, I'm not sure how that would explain the stuff at http://windows.oreilly.com/ . Especially given that Squeak does run on UNIX, and is open source. :-/ (Not trying to dispute what happened, just griping...)
- Doug Way
dway at riskmetrics.com
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