On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Max Norman <maxnor...@comcast.net> wrote:
> I'm a novice programmer, who, at the suggestion of several more experienced > developers, is attempting to get familiar with Smalltalk before moving on to > Ruby, to more thoroughly learn and understand the concepts of > object-oriented programming. First off, is this worth doing? I've started learning Smalltalk after two years of professional Ruby programming. Funny, I've learned a lot on Ruby by learning Smalltalk. Now I think that it's easier to understand object-oriented programming with Smalltalk. With Ruby I've learned a lot about meta-programming. > 'Squeak by Example' appears to be for more experienced programmers, who are > approaching Squeak/Smalltalk from a linguistic perspective. I have discovered Smalltalk with this book. It's easy to read and I found it useful. Laurent Laffont.
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