2009/12/12 Lawson English lengli...@cox.net:
To continue and extend my rant in response to this thread, here are examples
of Books I'd Like to See for Squeak/Pharo:
[examples snipped]
Without these kinds of materials available specifically oriented towards
squeak/pharo use, your average
To continue and extend my rant in response to this thread, here are
examples of Books I'd Like to See for Squeak/Pharo:
Books like these:
http://www.greenteapress.com/semaphores/downey05semaphores.pdf
http://www.greenteapress.com/compmod/
http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
Articles like these:
Conrad Taylor wrote:
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Lawson English lengli...@cox.net
mailto:lengli...@cox.net wrote:
Steve Wessels wrote:
That's right. Smalltalk hasn't died. I am fortunate enough
to be part of a team developing financial software for many
Steve Wessels wrote:
That's right. Smalltalk hasn't died. I am fortunate enough to be part of a
team developing financial software for many years using Smalltalk.
People have predicted Smalltalk's death about as often as Apple's death.
I think comparisons between Smalltalk and Java have to
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Steve Wessels wrote:
That's right. Smalltalk hasn't died. I am fortunate enough
Practice Patterns.
cheers,
tim
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Subject: RE: [Newbies] [semi-OT] (fwd) Re: What Killed Smalltalk?
From: Christine Wolfe cwd...@earthlink.net
Date: 11/22/2009 9:31 PM
I agree 100% It seems like most of the documentation is a tutorial or
example but not a straight forward
puts now-commonplace concepts into context. Chamond Liu's book is also very
good. Then for some polish, check Kent Beck's Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns.
cheers,
tim
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Subject: RE: [Newbies] [semi-OT] (fwd) Re: What Killed Smalltalk?
From: Christine Wolfe cwd...@earthlink.net
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Lawson English lengli...@cox.net wrote:
Steve Wessels wrote:
That's right. Smalltalk hasn't died. I am fortunate enough to be part of
a team developing financial software for many years using Smalltalk.
People have predicted Smalltalk's death about as
That's right. Smalltalk hasn't died. I am fortunate enough to be part of a
team developing financial software for many years using Smalltalk.
People have predicted Smalltalk's death about as often as Apple's death.
I think comparisons between Smalltalk and Java have to take marketing into
On 18.11.2009, at 13:41, Steve Wessels wrote:
That's right. Smalltalk hasn't died. I am fortunate enough to be part of a
team developing financial software for many years using Smalltalk.
People have predicted Smalltalk's death about as often as Apple's death.
I think comparisons
Smalltalk didn't die. It's growth was killed. The dream of taking
over the world was killed. But there are still people making their
living with Smalltalk. It is hard to find good Smalltalk jobs, but
they exist.
I've always thought the main problem with Smalltalk was lack of
marketing, in the
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Ralph Johnson john...@cs.uiuc.edu wrote:
Smalltalk didn't die. It's growth was killed. The dream of taking
over the world was killed.
+1. I use Smalltalk willingly, therefore it is not dead. It will only be
dead when the last contributer stops enjoying it.
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