[squeak-dev] 20 Years of Squeak

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Wed Sep 7 13:26:12 UTC 2016


On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 09:12:52PM +0800, Ben Coman wrote:
> Did JUnit derive from SUnit?  Some directed arrows showing Smalltalk
> ideas moving into other domains might be interesting.
> 
> cheers -ben

Yes it originated in Smalltalk, but it predates Squeak.

Kent Beck gets the credit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUnit

As a separate exercise, it might be fun to compile a list of good
ideas that started in Smalltalk, but were later advertised as amazing
new technology in e.g. Java ;-)

Dave

> 
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> > How about Pyonkee? Most prominent Squeak app in the iOS App Store I'd say.
> >
> > Also, impara's Plopp. Invented the "all-in-one" VM+image bundle, and
> > actually was on store shelves in a shiny box on CD-ROM.
> >
> > Also maybe VMs? Cog, RSqueak, SqueakJS?
> >
> > - Bert -
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, 6 September 2016, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> So - what about a nice list of all the cool things that have come out of
> >> Squeak over the last 20 years?
> >>
> >> I???ll start with the ones I can remember:
> >>
> >> Scratch
> >> eToys
> >> Spoon
> >> Cuis
> >> Pharo
> >> Croquet/OpenCobalt/3DICC-Terf/
> >> Sophie
> >> exobox
> >> MediaView (remember Interval Research? Of course not, it was so secret
> >> nobody knew when it died!)
> >> WeatherDimensions
> >> MathMorphs
> >> Kedama
> >> Frank
> >> Nile
> >> Balloon3D
> >>
> >> If we can come up with a moderate length list of the top ones I can design
> >> a Tshirt graphic to suit. The full list ought to be part of a swiki page, if
> >> indeed it isn???t already.
> >>
> >> tim
> >> --
> >> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> >> Never write software that anthropomorphizes the machine. They hate that.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >


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