For why smalltalk, you might check whysmalltalk.org. I wrote a little piece on what makes Squeak special on my blog last year: http://www.withaguide.com/2009/04/what-makes-squeak-special.html
Don't have time this AM to rewrite the C code, but will look tonight. You might want to look at the first chapter of "A Taste of Smalltalk" which rewrites a simple Pascal program in Pascal style code with Smalltalk. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Samuel Williams < space.ship.travel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I'm looking for some help from the Smalltalk community. I hope this is the > right place to ask for information. > > I'm putting together a website aimed at high school students and teachers, > and would like to make sure the following page is as good as possible: > > http://programming.dojo.net.nz/languages/smalltalk/index > > In particular, "Why would I learn this language?" section needs to have a > few paragraphs. I don't use Smalltalk so I hoped that you could provide the > main reasons why Smalltalk is a language someone would want to learn about. > > It would also be great if someone could rewrite the Smalltalk source code > example so that it is as close as possible to the C implementation: > > http://programming.dojo.net.nz/languages/c/index > > I understand that Smalltalk is very different from C, and uses different > paradigms, so it doesn't have to be identical, however it would be great if > it worked in generally the same way. It would be great if you could include > comments explaining how it works and what is happening (like the C example). > > Any other suggestions or ideas for the Smalltalk page would be fantastic, > and any suggestions to other pages in general is also very helpful. > > http://programming.dojo.net.nz/ > > Kind regards, > Samuel > > _______________________________________________ > Beginners mailing list > Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners > >
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