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The short answer is yes, you need to use the environment to fully grok Smalltalk. Much of the power of Smalltalk comes from the environment. It is pretty amazi
by mronge 15y ago
The short answer is yes, you need to use the environment to fully grok Smalltalk.
Much of the power of Smalltalk comes from the environment. It is pretty amazing how even now parts of Smalltalk are more sophisticated than todays programming tools.
- da02 15y agoIt might have to do with how Smalltalk/Squeak comes from people who believed the OS is stuff that you wanted in the language. Dan Ingalls: "An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one." http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.html http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.h... Alan Kay mentions this idea in relation to Lisp and Smalltalk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQg4LquY0uU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQg4LquY0uU (It's buried somewhere after 24 minutes.)