How to learn Squeak
Noel Rappin
noel.rappin at openwave.com
Thu Oct 11 21:31:53 UTC 2001
At 04:12 PM 10/11/2001, John Hinsley wrote:
>Noel Rappin wrote:
>
> >
> > Ironically, the book I did finally wind up working on for them probably has
> > a much smaller current user base than Squeak (Jython), but a quite large
> > potential user base.
>
>Noel (excuse for repeating plug!) is Jython the same as Jpython (Or is
>it JPython?)?
Yes -- well, technically it's the successor project. I believe they had to
change the name for legal reasons along the way when the core group
changed. But it's the same Python language to Java VM concept. And we
actually haven't formally announced this to the Jython lists yet, although
we expect to next week.
>Of course, it could be that they couldn't use an obscure animal for the
>cover!
The Ruby mailing list just went crazy over the original choice for their
cover -- a slug.
Noel
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