begin quoting Duke Normandin as of Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 09:52:42AM -0700: > Or more specifically, "How does one *start* an OOP/GST program? [snip] > So, when a person begins to design an OOP/GST program/script, with > what Class do you start?
The short answer? The REPL. Not with a class, but the Read-Evaluate-Print-Loop. > Let say that I want to create a console app - > say a text-based calculator (which eventually I'll migrate to > ncurses). The app will (pseudo-code) do the following: > > print-to-screen "Duke's Kick-ass GNU-Smalltalk Calculator" > skip a line > print-to-screen "Select a math Operation [+ - * /]: > wait for user input, then inhale it > print-to-screen "Enter first operand": > > You get the idea! Um, have you started with "Hello, World" yet? That's the traditional first program. :) [snip] -S. _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
