Fair enough. One of my big messages to newbies is that we Smalltalkers refer to "the development tools" with no small measure of reverence, but they look austere to those from the outside. The reason is simple: the Smalltalk tools do not need to have countless toolbars; one can simply interact directly with the objects using the compiler which "lurks just below" the workspaces in the various tools.
Welcome aboard! Bill ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Geoffroy Couprie [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 1:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Smalltalk for engineers That's what I was trying to express: when you already program with another language, you can easily understand a new language, but you have big assumptions that will slow you down. I just pointed out the most important parts that surprised me when I learned Smalltalk. On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K <[email protected]> wrote: > That comment requires elaboration or at least some examples of what one > can/should do, but getting past that is a big hurdle in learning Smalltalk. > Things old to us can be earth shattering: something as simple as creating a > new package (or even just a new class or a new class method somewhere, etc.) > vs. writing a whole new program in some other language. > > > > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] On Behalf Of John McIntosh > [[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 5:33 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Smalltalk for engineers > > Casual mention of iPhone port, always helpfull > > On 2/4/11, Geert Claes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> James Robertson spotted this post: >> >> http://unhandledexpression.com/2011/02/04/smalltalk-for-engineers/ >> >> I was especially interested in the statement "you don’t understand what you >> can/should do ..." >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://forum.world.st/Smalltalk-for-engineers-tp3261551p3261551.html >> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > > > -- > =========================================================================== > John M. McIntosh <[email protected]> > Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com > =========================================================================== > >
