On 21-Nov-09, at 10:10 AM, Jason Rogers wrote:

> Colin -- I'm curious what you think of Rio (http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5929 
> ).

I took a look at Rio a while back, and I remember being turned off by  
the whole DSL-mania thing from Ruby. IMO, trying to layer another  
language on top of Smalltalk syntax makes for very twisted code. It's  
a bit easier in Ruby because of the implicit self, but even so, I  
think simple, powerful abstractions that combine in predictable ways  
is the best a way to achieve clear, understandable code.

That said, looking at the page you link to above, Filesystem and Rio  
have a lot in common. Rio may have evolved since I looked at it, and I  
probably stole a bunch of Keith's ideas without realizing it.

Colin