RE: This week's community meeting

2015-11-25 Thread Bates, Simon
At standup this morning, Dana was asking if there would be good places to read more about the Smalltalk programming language. Dan Ingalls' article "Design Principles Behind Smalltalk" is a very nice overview of some of the forces and motivations in the design of the language:

Re: This week's community meeting

2015-11-25 Thread Steve Lee
One final thought from Alan Kay on the equally inspiring C2 wiki. Just a gentle reminder that I took some pains at the last OOPSLA to try to remind everyone that Smalltalk is not only NOT its syntax or the class library, it is not even about classes. I'm sorry that I long ago coined the term

RE: This week's community meeting

2015-11-25 Thread Bates, Simon
f of Bates, Simon [sba...@ocadu.ca] Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 12:41 PM To: Fluid Work ‎[fluid-w...@fluidproject.org]‎ Subject: RE: This week's community meeting At standup this morning, Dana was asking if there would be good places to read more about the Smalltalk programming language. D