Yay! It's nice to hear stories like this.

Thanks,
Dave

> Hi Squeakers,
>
> I just wanted to write in with a quick report on a recent demonstration
> I did for my my colleagues at work.
>
> At the company I work for we are given one Friday a month to work on any
> sort of project that interests us, whether or not it is related to the
> work we do for the company, and so I usually end up playing around with
> a project in Squeak. As part of the deal, we are asked to occasionally
> present what we are working on to our peers, in the hopes that they can
> do some learning from our projects as well.
>
> I didn't have any projects ready to demonstrate in a compelling way so I
> decided to instead just show off Squeak itself and give people kind of
> an introduction to Smalltalk and what I find so compelling about it. I
> decided to go ahead and live code a version of the bouncing atoms morph,
> using submorphs for the atoms, and developing the code as the parent
> morph "stepped" away on screen, updating its behavior seamlessly.  I
> demonstrated adding variables and method without stopping, changing the
> methods and debugging them when I made mistakes, changing the entire
> class of the onscreen morphs as the simulation ran and some of the cool
> things about the language itself as well, like "build-your-own" if
> statements and such.
>
> Overall I think that I kind of blew a bunch of people's minds, what with
> our day to day work being in C++ and always being in that
> edit-compile-run-test cycle. Several people came up to me afterwards to
> say how much they enjoyed seeing a different view of programming and
> what it could represent and I hope to put together a few more
> demonstrations in the coming months.
>
> Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that Smalltalk is still surprising
> people and exceeding their expectations 35 years on, and a large part of
> it is thanks to all the great work that goes into Squeak from its
> contributors.
>
> Thanks for your efforts!
> Jeff
>