Spreading Smalltalk

David Salamon david at myth.sdsu.edu
Wed Apr 17 00:35:04 UTC 2002


On 4/16/02 5:13 PM, "Avi Bryant" <avi at beta4.com> wrote:
> Honestly, I'm not sure "scripting" is the right target for Squeak anyway.
> Ruby does pretty well in that space and should be perfectly palatable to
> Smalltalk folks.  Instead I've been trying to encourage Ruby people to
> use Squeak for tasks that outgrow the scripting niche.

Hmm. Ruby sounds interesting, though Smalltalk-syntax certainly could
script. I have heard the GNU Smalltalk goes in that direction, so I guess
I'll take a look over there.

Though I still think a command line Squeak would be interesting...

Just a thought,
    David Salamon




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