[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Kernel-eem.1117.mcz

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sat Nov 11 15:30:12 UTC 2017


On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 10:16:54AM -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 10:23:49AM +0100, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
> > 2017-11-11 9:24 GMT+01:00 Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de>:
> > 
> > >
> > > > On 11.11.2017, at 08:59, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Interestingly, the streaming thing is more natural to me here than the
> > > make-array-and-put.
> > > > Some people I asked agree, some don't. Seemed to correlate with age,
> > > tho??? ;P
> 
> I also find the streaming thing more natural, despite my advanced years and
> early exposure to fortran and C.
> 
> But ultimately I am convinced by Nicolas' explanation.
> 
> > >
> > > Should have said "correlate with what people where exposed first to", sorry
> > >
> > >
> > :)
> > Logically, punching cards should help developping a taste for an economy.
> > Unfortunately, it was just an economy of punch...
> > Maybe that's why we like those short words, to:, do:, at:
> > 
> 
> This prompts me to remind everyone to load Bob Arning's excellent PunchdCard
> morph from SqueakMap or http://www.squeaksource.com/PunchedCards. Every
> modern image should have this. But I am dismayed to see that bit rot has
> set in recently, and I can no longer punch holes in the cards by clicking
> the mouse over the card columns, so this needs fixing.
> 
> No complaints though, the real card punches back in the day required
> preventive maintenance, and it was not uncommon for them to just stop
> punching properly. So I guess that an occasional malfunction is to be
> expected for the PunchedCard morph, especially since I have not been
> keeping up with its preventive schedule on new Squeak releases.

Oh dear, the error was entirely in my own failing memory cells. The punched
card responds only to key events, not any mouse events. Aside from needing
some minor font tweaks, it is working fine despite my lack of attention
to its preventive maintenance schedule.

Dave




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