Smalltalk at oopsla

Hans N Beck hnbeck at t-online.de
Wed Oct 26 17:27:38 UTC 2005


Hi Alexandre,

thanks for the report :-) Anything new to 0.3 Croquet ? Have they  
mentioned when to next release could come ? There is nowhere any  
information (Blogs or Website, at least I don't found it...)

Greetings

Hans

Am 20.10.2005 um 16:52 schrieb Alexandre Bergel:

> Hello,
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> Today is the last day of oopsla. It was a really cool surprise to  
> see how many times Smalltalk was cited during talks and how many  
> compliments it obtained. Here some particular moment I enjoyed:
>     - Before the keynote of Mary Beth, James Noble said something  
> like: "Eclipse tries to achieve something that Smalltalk did 20  
> years ago, and remains still behind". The room was completely full  
> at that time.
>     - The room where the Croquet workshop hold was completely full,  
> even if the organization was a bit shaky (please, do not take it  
> bad :-), this was really cool! The room was completely full, and it  
> did not contains only smalltalkers, but also people who were just  
> curious and wanted to learn more.
>     - David Reed gave a talk on Croquet, and the room was really  
> big, and was completely full.
>     - Roel Wuyts was chair of the Symposium on Dynamic Languages.  
> And again, the room was too small to contain all the attendees :-)  
> Especially for the very last talk given by Brian Foote; the doors  
> had to left open in order to make people standing  outside able to  
> listen.
>     - Martin McClure organized a Squeak BOF. That was really cool.  
> Again, some people came here just to learn more about squeak/ 
> smalltalk.
>
> I was also delighted to see that some technical presentations in  
> the research tracks shown DrScheme into action. Kathryn did a demo  
> using DrScheme, and it was really cool!
>
> Also, I felt that Smalltalk had more attention than Ruby and other  
> Python. This oopsla was a wonderful opportunity to meet people in  
> real.
>
> Keep going Smalltalkers! We have cool things to show, and we have  
> to show them!
> I would like to give big hands to Roel and Martin to have organized  
> their events.
>
> Cheers,
> Alexandre
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