Hi Jeff,

I occasionally have to write stuff in other languages.  While all of what
you learn in "Programming" transfers to any language, all the things you
feel like you should be able to do - are just missing in other languages.
The live aspect and debugging on the fly, oh what does that class look like,
just debug and find out what's there, follow the connections live.  It
becomes second nature and so painful when it's missing.

All the best,

Ron Teitelbaum

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of David T. Lewis
> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 4:17 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Live Coding Demonstration Success!
> 
> 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
> >
> 
>