Article On Modern Smalltalk

[blake]

Hello, folks--

I've been commissioned to write an article on modern Smalltalk and
wanted to solicit feedback on what people thought the most interesting
and useful aspects to cover would be. Obviously I wanted to talk about
Squeak, Pharo, Amber, and at least touch on Lively, and talk about the
commercial offerings (Dolphin, VAST, VW), and then there's Seaside and
GLORP and Spoon and Cuis and...etc. etc. etc.

Since it's not a book, I can't possibly cover everything, so I want to
hit the highlights, and I'm trying to avoid being overly insular
(e.g., only talking about what are the highlights for me).

Any and all comments welcome.

===Blake===

[blake]

Thanks for the feedback so far. Gemstone/S will certainly be in there:
Thank you, Dale, I might have overlooked that.

Alexandre: Yes, that is something I'm very interested in. Any kind of
live, linkable projects that demonstrate ST in real-world use.

I'm glad to hear Squeak.org is being updated. That was one of my first
stops and the link rot there is impressive.

All that said, while I want to touch on a lot of things, I'm not
creating a link dump. I want to focus more heavily on a few things. I
want to show people things that make them think "Man, I'm gonna go
check that out!"

There's probably an encyclopedia worth of stuff out there; I want to
hit the highest of the high notes.

[Sean P. DeNigris]

blake wrote

> I've been commissioned to write an article on modern Smalltalk

How did the article turn out? Is there a public link to it?



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[blake watson]

I think it turned out pretty well, though as I recall, I had to cut it down from, I dunno, 5,000 words. I haven't re-read it to see how well it holds up.

As for the impact, well, a "related article" is "7 Reasons ReXX Still Matters". Heh.

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[Sean P. DeNigris]

blake wrote

> I think it turned out pretty well

Great!


blake wrote

> Is there a public link to it?

I'm assuming it's this:
http://blog.smartbear.com/programming/todays-smalltalk-a-second-look-at-the-first-oo-language/
. I enjoyed it. I learned a few new things and remembered a few I'd
forgotten. Overall it seemed fair, thorough, and interesting.



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