[squeak-dev] Catching up to the 80s

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Sat Dec 28 16:13:50 UTC 2013


I don't have time to read that in detail but one thing I would like to
port (or, see ported) to Squeak is Jens Mönig's "Syntax-Elements for
Smalltalk".

https://phratch.googlecode.com/files/Elements090224.pdf

I've managed to look at the code and run it in an old Squeak image.
Inspired by Scratch except very lightweight, just a few classes!


On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://peaker.github.io/lamdu/
>
> It's an IDE for Haskell that aims to bring to Haskell programmers what
> we've enjoyed for ages. There might be some things in there that we
> don't do yet, that might be worth "borrowing".
>
> We don't have a real structural editor, for instance. Not a trivial
> piece of work either, mind you.
>
> It's obviously (Haskell!) centred around leveraging the benefits of
> functional programming. Smalltalk traditionally doesn't use functional
> techniques (referential transparency, I'm looking at you), and so side
> effects cause a drastic deviation from some of the techniques lamdu
> will be able to use.
>
> Anyway, it's nice to see the ideas spreading. Please take a look, and
> see if you can see anything we can borrow!
>
> frank
>


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