[IDEA] Gtk2.0 and Squeak in the 'real boring world'

Kevin Fisher kgf at golden.net
Thu Jun 20 20:16:20 UTC 2002


On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:51:39PM -0500, Aaron wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Kevin Fisher wrote:
> 
> > > Also, GNU Smalltalk has a Tk interface.  A GTK interface is eventually the
> > > plan, judging from the folders in the tarball.   May not be terribly
> > > useful to look at, I've no clue how different GST is set up.
> > >
> >
> > Wow...GNU Smalltalk...that takes me back.  I remember playing with that
> > back in '94ish..it didn't have an interface of any kind, and sadly didn't
> > appear to be under any kind of development.
> 
> It's under development still, just not intensively.  AFAIK, Paolo
> is the only one really putting much work into it.  There may have been
> 
> I've had problems getting the Tk interface work in the past, but I had no
> problems getting it to work with GST 1.95.10 under Linux/x86 (RH 7.x?).
> Compiled with no probs on my iBook running Debian 3.0, haven't had the
> time to try Blox on it yet- but I think I shall now. :)
> 
> Aaron


Well, it's nice to see someone was working on it after all these years. :)
I think after Gnu Smalltalk I moved on to Smalltalk/X for a while.  I've
been meaning to check back into that...at the time they didn't have any
North American distributers for it (this was back in '95 or '96).

'Course after '96 I was stuck in C++ hell until early '98, when someone pointed
me to Squeak.   I've been allergic to C++ ever since. :)





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