Re: [Newbies] What makes Smalltalk different

2011-11-23 Thread Göran Krampe
On 11/22/2011 07:02 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 22.11.2011, at 18:48, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: At Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:35:28 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: It's true that superficially the Smalltalk GUI looks just like another IDE. No coincidence - Eclipse was originally written by

[Newbies] What makes Smalltalk different

2011-11-22 Thread Bert Freudenberg
(This is from an answer to a question on StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8222489 It might be helpful to some newbies on this list so I'm re-posting) === Q: (paraphrased) I want to learn Smalltalk but without the baggage of an IDE. Just let me

Re: [Newbies] What makes Smalltalk different

2011-11-22 Thread David T. Lewis
This is a very nice, concise summary :) Dave On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:35:28PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: (This is from an answer to a question on StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8222489 It might be helpful to some newbies on this list so I'm re-posting)

Re: [Newbies] What makes Smalltalk different

2011-11-22 Thread Gary Dunn
Well put! Please can someone with permissions capture this on our swiki? Gary Dunn Open Slate Project http://openslate.org On Nov 22, 2011 1:35 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: (This is from an answer to a question on StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8222489 It

Re: [Newbies] What makes Smalltalk different

2011-11-22 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:35:28 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: It's true that superficially the Smalltalk GUI looks just like another IDE. No coincidence - Eclipse was originally written by Smalltalkers in Smalltalk. But there is the crucial difference that in regular IDEs you just manipulate

Re: [Newbies] What makes Smalltalk different

2011-11-22 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 22.11.2011, at 18:48, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: At Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:35:28 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: It's true that superficially the Smalltalk GUI looks just like another IDE. No coincidence - Eclipse was originally written by Smalltalkers in Smalltalk. But there is the crucial

Re: [Newbies] What makes Smalltalk different

2011-11-22 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 22.11.2011, at 19:45, H. Hirzel wrote: Yes, a good concise summary. A candidate for a module an www.cnx.org. I'd like to put it there. Bert, may I ask you to allow me to do that. The license for that web site with e-learning modules is http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Re: [Newbies] What makes Smalltalk different

2011-11-22 Thread H. Hirzel
Thank you, Bert! Now available under http://cnx.org/content/m41628/latest/ with a link to an existing module http://cnx.org/content/m36331/latest/ --Hannes On 11/22/11, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 22.11.2011, at 19:45, H. Hirzel wrote: Yes, a good concise summary. A