Smalltalk at oopsla
Alexandre Bergel
bergel at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Oct 26 17:41:56 UTC 2005
> 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...)
The new release of Croquet, titled Hedgehog, is supposed to be
released pretty soon (something like next month).
Cheers,
Alexandre
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> Greetings
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> Hans
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> Am 20.10.2005 um 16:52 schrieb Alexandre Bergel:
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>> 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.
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>> 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!
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>> Also, I felt that Smalltalk had more attention than Ruby and other
>> Python. This oopsla was a wonderful opportunity to meet people in
>> real.
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>> 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.
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>> Cheers,
>> Alexandre
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