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What is a single book you would recommend to someone interested in Smalltalk?
I've started looking into Smalltalk some weeks ago. So far I've gone through the Cincom tutorials ( 1 and 2 ) and I've read Squeak by Example , which I found quite good for ...
Started by Andrei Vajna II on
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To help people get up to speed with the tools and environment in Squeak, rather than with Smalltalk itselfSmalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck
I recommend Smalltalk by Example by Alec Sharp, this is certainly Smalltalk....
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I'm familiar with the VisualWorks and Dolphin versions of Smalltalk, but have not previously used Squeak. I'm just familiarising myself with Pharo, which is a 'cleaned up' fork of Squeak.
I'm used to having the facility in the Class Browser to show either...
Started by teapot7 on
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There is the Inheritance Browser that shows you the hierarchal... .
The hierarchy button in the toolbar and the menu entry browse hierarchy (Ctrl+H) open the same view .
You can double-click on any class to open a Hierarchy Browser on that particular class .
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Hey all,
I'm working on an app in squeak that requires no graphics at all, its all just data manipulation. The problem is that I work in a fairly conservative environment and I dont think I'll be able to sell a squeak app to my managers (I feel like the...
Started by Alex on
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There is an ANSI Smalltalk....
GNU Smalltalk's are more similar to what you get with Squeak's Rio.
On the benchmarks game - GNU Smalltalk :: Squeak
When you hit specific problems ask about them will be the filesystem classes.
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I've been learning Squeak Smalltalk & have noticed that it's got a really faithful community and is used in some large academic and open-source projects, but I haven't found any examples of it being used commercially in any significant way. I'm curious...
Started by Arthur Vanderbilt on
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They may have moved off Squeak but I am sure they used it at one "traditonal" GUI toolkit running with ....
There are tried to get moreDabbleDB I think is (was?) one .
In some Smalltalk like VisualWorks and than the same in Squeak.
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With every new Squeak image, I immediately change the fonts to some native version. It is a lot of mouseclicks and I want to script the proces.
Started by soemirno on
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CodeFont := LogicalFont familyName....
The complete script is now:
"Set fonts on Mac OS X" defaultFont := LogicalFont familyName: 'Lucida Grande' pointSize: 10 stretchValue: 5 weightValue: 400 slantValue: 0 .
Found the answer, was looking for setSystemFontTo.
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I'm really begining to learn Smalltalk. Now I'm using Squeak , but there is any way to develop in Smalltalk without using VMs, but something like an IDE?
Started by Nathan Campos on
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Working in a Squeak a Smalltalk....
Squeak is definitely the way to go for a Smalltalk IDE
Maybe others, it's called Objective-C."
EDIT: All that said, see Logan's reference to GNU Smalltalk.
Has good Smalltalk integration.
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I have a graph-traversal problem that is beautifully and elegantly modeled in smalltalk, but it's too big (in terms of computation and storage) for one smalltalk image instance. So, I want to partition the problem across multiple instances.
My question...
Started by Alex on
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Qwaq releases Hydra multi-core Squeak VM HydraVM devnotes [squeak-dev] [ANN] Hydra now can do mitosis Have a look at Remote Smalltalk....
There is a project named Hydra underway, with a goal to make a Squeak multi-core capable.
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In what solutions are you employing Smalltalk? What are the pros&cons of Smalltalk for those solutions?
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Say they solved a design problem (so I'd run through say StrongTalk, Squeak, stx, Smalltalk MT, Dolphin smalltalk....
I use Smalltalk (Squeak, Pharo and Dolphin) for the odd tasks at my work.
Smalltalk is awesome.
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I downloaded Squeak, the Image file, and the Sources file, but I can't figure out how to write Smalltalk code. Is there something obvious I'm missing? Is Squeak even the right IDE for serious Smalltalk development?
Started by Thomas Owens on
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Squeak....
Squeak is a great environment for learning Smalltalk, but don't confuse that particular come at a financial cost.
It's intended as a first.
Squeak is really oriented towards "serious Smalltalk development".
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Every time I see a discussion on software development, always someone suggests or exalts the qualities of Smalltalk, be it the beautiful language constructs or the better implementation of basically everything.
So I was curious, is anybody developing ...
Started by Luis Rojas on
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You canSmalltalk isn'....
Squeak isn't its UI.
Squeak at fscript , which is essentially a smalltalk-like language for Objective C.
Distribution that could produce native apps was Ambrai Smalltalk, and that died in beta AFAIK.
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