I was impressed how you can rotate a window any degrees and continues to work (edit text, etc.) as a normal window (something quite unique in my experience). That's because all desktop is one big canvas and top-level floating objects can be not only window frames but any geometry, brush stroke, etc.
Except the breakthrough multi-media system, in its core, Squeak is mostly typical SmallTalk: in-memory "workspace" with live object browsing and edit-and-continue, bytecodes, etc. have always been there. Squeak brings it all out in an attractive and free package. Other SmallTalk cousins * F-Script (blend of SmallTalk, APL and Mac's Cocoa) http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/chat/2007-March/000424.html * Self (derived by NewtonScript) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_programming_language Like Lisp and APL/J/K, they all have very simple (to parse) langauge syntax: no precedence etc; dynamically typed; use live objects which can mutate (as opposed to C++). --- Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While searching for some documentation, I tripped over squeak. > http://www.squeak.org > > This is a smalltalk interpreter/incremental compiler site (free download). > > In some ways, it reminds me of Dyalog apl (in that you get graphical > workspaces when you start the environment). More generally, it > implements some interesting UI principles. > > Also, smalltalk is one of the better languages for picking up object > oriented implementation concepts. > > Anyways, if you have some hours to kill, this might be a good place > to waste them -- especially if you are trying to conceptualize UI > concepts. > > For reference, here are some previous references to squeak from J > contexts: > > http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/2005-January/020068.html > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/play193.htm > http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2005-November/000292.html > > The first mentions squeak as fun for getting into UI work. The other > two mention comparative program collections on other sites which > include squeak instances. > > FYI, > > -- > Raul __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
