On 8/15/06, stéphane ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
> I'm fed up to see people coming to squeak and after saying that they
> use Ruby for scripting (writing small program
> that perform string manipulations and output some results). We have
> good regexp packages. For these people having a
> result printed in a console is important and I would like to have the
> same possibility in Squeak.  They do not like/understand
> the idea of an IDE but want to see the results at their prompt.

To be more precise, Smalltalk gives the impression (at least that's
what it gives to me as a beginner) of being an autistic system,
trapped inside its image. A squeak image looks more like yet another
OS installation to administrate than a tool that integrates in an
existing OS.

Mind you I really like Smalltalk because it's so much more clean, but
right now I'll still use Ruby when I have to write a 20-line script
just to automate simple stuff. It's simply faster to fire up emacs and
edit a file than setup a new image, load/create a monticello package,
etc

It's not trivial to pipe stuff to/from other shell commands, to give
arguments from the command line, etc. Basically it's not
straightforward to use it as a replacement for bash or ruby. So for
most linux guys I know it seems useless because they can't integrate
it with their existing tools and habits.

-- 
 Damien Pollet
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