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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