you can also use the smalltalk tools.
senders.
implementers
message tools
we say that a guy is ok in smalltalk when he understand senders and
implementors.
Now you can also send this kind of message to the squeak and smalltalk
community because I should be
guy that wrote the larger number of smalltalk book so I do not know
how I could do more.
Stef
On Mar 27, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Robert Peters wrote:
>
> I agree with this sentiment. I have been trying to learn Smalltalk
> with the help of 'Squeak by Example', but while it is a good read,
> it is almost useless as a reference.
>
> When I have a Python issue, I type (for example), "initialize multi-
> dimensional array Python" into Google and get 14,000 responses.
> Replace 'Python' with 'Smalltalk' and I get 2,000, most of which
> aren't about Smalltalk, and I still haven't found a code example.
>
> There are a number of books on-line, but some don't even have tables
> of contents or indexes, and they're all in .pdf, which makes them
> extremely cumbersome to use as references.
>
> I, of course, only speak for myself, but I am officially closing my
> current foray into Smalltalk. It's too hard to learn. There's not
> adequate reference material. There are very few code examples.
>
> If, at some point in the future, Smalltalk becomes easier to learn,
> I will try again. Until then, I'm going back to Python.
>
> I mentioned on the Pharo IRC channel that I was a Django developer,
> and would consider building a site to assist with getting the
> material inside these books onto the web, and I will continue to
> think about that. If there's any interest, please let me know.
>
> Kind regards,
> Robert Peters
>
>
> Having better comment than
> buildWith: aBuilder
> ^self subclassResponsibility
>
> is needed if we want to continue to bash Java people.
> So what do we do?
> Stef
>
>
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