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I downloaded Squeak last year, played with it for a while. It's extremely cool. I felt like I grokked OOP for the first time. (And it's much more OOPy than what
by yesenadam 8y ago
I downloaded Squeak last year, played with it for a while. It's extremely cool. I felt like I grokked OOP for the first time. (And it's much more OOPy than what is usually called OOP) It was the easiest thing I've ever tried to install and use, everything just worked. Most interesting were the design decisions just different (and better, cooler) to what is universal these days. (And a lot of the things that are familiar and universal these days, originated with Smalltalk!) A lot of stuff you can't do between windows or programs nowadays (the stuff Ted Nelson, Alan Kay etc complain about), is natural and easy in Squeak/Smalltalk. Or how it saves the whole state of the system and everything you had open, where you had it, and you can have many of those.. Too many things to mention, but it's a delight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeak