Hmm, the NTK view of Squeak.
Bruce ONeel
beoneel at bluewin.ch
Mon Aug 19 09:17:53 UTC 2002
NTK is at www.ntk.net. It's fairly funny most of the time.
Dijkstra finally gone? Great. Now we can hang out with those
sloppy little unrigorous languages he never let into the
house. Right on cue: the latest dev version of GNU
SMALLTALK, that dirty treat-me-like-an-object ducky. Version
2.0b sprouts HTML-embedding and experimental MySQL support -
implying you might actually be able to do something useful
with it. Admittedly, "useful" has not been a word much used
in the Smalltalk community recently. Many of the current
addicts seem to live entirely in the pleasuredomes of that
Land of Infinite Fun, Alan Kay's Smalltalk sequel SQUEAK,
the cross-platform UI-kablooie playground which, over time,
been overloaded with more ill-fitting metaphors than this
sentence. But even Squeak is showing signs of returning to
planet Earth. Talk of cleaning up the object tree are rife;
coders are working on XP-alike skins (instead of Squeak's
peculiarly homely interface right now). There's even word of
a SmallTalkish scripting language in the offing. And all
those new MacOS X Objective C hackers are following the
trail back to the NeXT's great ancestor, giving a timely
boost to the tribe. Xerox Parc *will* return!
http://freshmeat.net/releases/93723/
- the smaller Smalltalk
http://www.squeak.org/download/
- pretty colours
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/
- where they're all hiding
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/WebPages/FreeBooks.html
- look! free ST books!
http://www.pocketsmalltalk.com/
- look! free Palm IDE!
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