On 03.01.2014, at 02:36, David T. Lewis <le...@mail.msen.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 05:04:50PM -0800, David Holiday wrote: >> Thank you everyone for your alacritous responses! >> >> I'm finding one of the challenges in learning Smalltalk is not the syntax of >> the code, nor the general paradigm by which the code is implemented, but >> understanding the tools well enough to make things happen. I'm an >> experienced programmer and I'm finding that I'm having to completely rethink >> the way I go about my work when diddling around with this language. That's >> not in and of itself a bad thing - just saying I'm thankful for this mailing >> list :-) >> > > It does take a bit of getting used to, especially if you are an old > goat like me. But it is worth the effort. > > Youthful and inexperienced people say that there is really not much > effort involved in learning this stuff, but I'm not personally in a > position to confirm or deny that claim.
Hah! You should hear students complain ;) - Bert - _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
