On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Nicholas Moore <
nicholas.moore@...> wrote:
I would like to help but am not sure how? (with the
usual reservations about time and ignorance of Squeak (maybe it will
motivate me to learn!!?)).
N
Nicholas
Do you use VisualWorks mostly? I like a lot of what I see in VisualWorks, but I am doing a proof-of-concept project for a hospital that we WILL use, but we are...cheap!
Therefore, with Squeak, the price was right!
VisualWorks seems a bit zippier, though, and I really like some of the add-on packages like tabbed browsing, and the ability to dive with the inspector. Not to mention native database drivers and better dll support. Oh well, maybe next year!
Anyway, I was wondering...if I was properly motivated to do so, do you think that "real world" [Aida] examples would be benificial? Maybe with a "business" slant to it? If the Ruby'ers can do it, why can't we?
Maybe in a screencast format with associated text that you could copy if you liked. If you did it right, I suppose you would have good content for a Sophie book, which would be an interesting kind of closure on a Squeak web site.
All I know is that after four years of trying to learn Smalltalk, things are finally starting to make sense because:
1. I am trying to solve a real problem that I care about.
2. Aida lets me create a view of my domain model in a very basic way.
3. Without #2, it's boring. People like to "see" an answer, and, let's face it, Morphic programming is hard!
Rob
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