Hi Guys - I sent this to the ESUG list, related to a discussion about ease of access to Smalltalk ------------------------------ >Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:32:07 -0700 >To: [email protected] >From: Dan Ingalls <[email protected]> >Subject: [Esug-list] Is he kidding? > >Hi again - > >I will stop polluting this otherwise sane list, but I can't resist one more >thought... > >You know I never left Smalltalk; I'm just using another language right now >;-). One of the early thoughts I had when working on the Lively Kernel was to >put a Smalltalk "skin" on top of it, and I'd have a Lively Smalltalk. I was >going to release it to SqueakLand as an April Fool's prank, but the day came >and went; then a year came and went, and so it goes... > >Meanwhile, Alex Warth sketched a Smalltalk evaluator in OMeta and put it up on >his Tin Lizzie site. Anticipating various fun language experiments, we then >integrated OMeta (as JavaScript) with the Lively Kernel, and Robert Krahn put >together a Lively version of Alex's experiment. You might find it >intriguing... > > > http://lively-kernel.org/repository/webwerkstatt/Dan/OMeta-Smalltalk-Demo.xhtml > >This should work on Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Opera, with iPad and IE9 >working RSN. You should be able to select expressions and evaluate them with >cmd-p or something similar (different in different browsers and platforms). >If all else fails, you should be able to bring up a menu with cmd-click, and >select Text-functions/print-it. Don't forget to scroll the Smalltalk workspace >up -- the best examples are out of view. > >So, is this a joke? > > Modern JavaScripts runs at a speed comparable to Squeak > The graphics are resolution-independent and anti-aliased > It runs in almost every browser > You don't need to install it to run > You can save your work on a web page and share it that way too > >Of course it's only a two-day hack, but what if someone actually got serious >about it? And what about the synergy with Gilad's interest in compiling >Newspeak to JS? For me, I think we could have a lot of fun in the next year. > If this tickles your fancy, hop on the Lively Kernel mail list and we'll try >to give you some support. The documentation is sparse but the people are >friendly. > >All the best > > - Dan > >_______________________________________________ >Esug-list mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org
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