[Newbies] Re: General Questions to the Squeak Community

2016-08-03 Thread Joseph Alotta
> > 1. The community seems TINY for such a cool project. At this point it seems > to mainly consist of people in academics and "old-timers" that have stuck > around since a time when Squeak was more popular. Is this correct or am I > maybe not looking in the right places? > > It seems a

Re: [Newbies] Re: General Questions to the Squeak Community

2016-08-03 Thread Michael Rice
Back in the late '80 everyone was waiting for Smalltalk, the exemplar object-programming language. If you want to know "what happened to Smalltalk" then google the preceding quoted text. But that was then This is now: the programming community has moved on to yet another panacea -- functional

Re: [Newbies] Re: General Questions to the Squeak Community

2016-08-03 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
On 03/08/16 14:29, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote: Hi, I think that Smalltalk community is larger that the Squeak one. Some healthy forks like Cuis or Pharo have small but dynamic communities behind to serve different interests and community dynamics. Woops that sound a little

[Newbies] Re: mix ins

2016-08-03 Thread Joseph Alotta
I was able to get everything working fine on 5.0. I like it better than 4.3. I think you guys have done a great job!! Thank you. Joe. > On Aug 2, 2016, at 8:07 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote: > > Hi Bert, > > I downloaded Squeak 5.0. Seems to work well. But I have

Re: [Newbies] Re: General Questions to the Squeak Community

2016-08-03 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, I think that Smalltalk community is larger that the Squeak one. Some healthy forks like Cuis or Pharo have small but dynamic communities behind to serve different interests and community dynamics. So I think that people interested mostly in education for children gravitated towards