PySquik (was: Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Minimal Squeak Project)

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sat Feb 13 22:48:27 UTC 2016


On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 12:57:10PM -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> > On 13-02-2016, at 12:41 PM, Herbert K?nig <herbertkoenig at gmx.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Right now I get paid to work in Python but I create all classes, instvars and method categories in Squeak and use it as a notebook or to test some code snippets. Projects inside projects. 
> 
> Like it! 
> 
> So does anyone remember the old pseudo-BASIC syntax read/write capability DanI added a loooong time ago? Maybe there?s an interesting project to make a Python development system within Squeak? And maybe execute it too? Since we have a good jit available, perhaps it would even make it run decently.
>

Do you mean the altSyntax that was integrated into browsers? That
survived through at least Squeak 3.8. I thought it was a nice thing
to have because it was a way to help a new user to grok that Smalltalk
is not about syntax, it's all about the messages and objects.

Dave
 


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