Squeak's "general acceptance"

nik boretos nicolasb at maich.gr
Tue Jul 5 07:14:25 UTC 2005


Blake wrote:

> If Squeak is to be accepted into the business community at large, I 
> would  say the website is way less imporant than the ability to slap 
> down a grid,  hook it up to a database, and do some sort of live 
> interaction.
>
> It's not really exciting--though it'd be nice to see Smalltalk 
> principles  applied--but it's fundamental.
>
> I have a project right now I'd like to do in seaside, but it requires 
> me  to be able to read and display a table on the web, something 
> easily done  in other environments, but not in Squeak.
>
> Just an opinion. I keep looking for places to use Squeak in a 
> business  context. Database connectivity and display is key.
>
I'll strongly second that...

nikos





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