Hi Joseph!

Joseph Jones <darkdescendant at mac.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just started with Squeak and SmallTalk and am enjoying programming in 

To not look newbyish - write Smalltalk without capital T. :)

> it for the first time in a long time. I have a couple of newbie 
> questions, though that I have not found adequate answers for elsewhere.
> 
> 1) What is the significance of the use of >> in many of your emails? Is 
> this a SmallTalkism that I missed somewhere or is this a convention 
> used to tie a Class name and a method name together in discussions?

Yes, it is such a convention. Not sure either where it really comes
from.

> 2) How do I run Squeak in a non-ui mode? I have seen a few items 
> talking about -headless on the command line. Is that all there is to 
> it?

Should be.
 
> Thanx,
> joe
> 
> P.S. Imagine my surprise when, on my first day on the list, the ANN of 
> a new leadership and all the followup mail hits me. Man, didn't know 
> what to think about that. Fortunately (?) I am way to uninformed to 
> converse on that topic intelligently and only hope that the best thing 
> for the community and for Squeak comes out of it. :-)

Hehe, well - you sure picked an interesting point in time to join us! :)

The current torrent on this list is not representative, even though the
traffic in general is quite high. And yes, my bet (but I am of course in
the eye of the storm) is that this is something very good. But all we
can do is to see how it turns out.

regards, Göran