Wow! What a trip down memory lane and I learned some I didn’t know as well.
This thread is inspiring in itself :) And I agree with all those named and that
there are many more unnamed!
I guess I agree on the question being wrong.
There are quiet a few people I think did incredibly important things,
not only to Smalltalk. What about the people behind the Refactoring
Browser (John Brant? and I guess a few less prominent people who did
some of the groundwork), for example?
Tudor Girba and his colleagues at feenk need to be recognized, too.
In many respects, they have pushed Smalltalk to do things that, I think,
the original designers would have heartily endorsed.
On Sun, Jul 25, 2021, 18:44 wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for some great suggestions.
>
> I’m coming
Thanks to everyone for some great suggestions.
I’m coming around to the notion that I asked the wrong question. In the context
of Smalltalk’s 50th anniversary, the reason I asked the question is because I
noted that in APL’s 50th anniversary celebration, they gave an award to the one
The most visible Smalltalk at the moment/last 5 years and in my estimation
what/the only thing that drives new users to come to Smalltalk is Pharo, and
the person that is most responsible for that is Stephane Ducasse. I think his
contribution to Smalltalk as a whole is underrated. The
I'd like to call Stephan Ducasse for special mention for providing the
free Smalltalk books site.
And I'd like to mention all the other people who contributed to the
Squeak books and the
continuing Pharo documentation work. Producing good documentation is
hard work and
when you're not being paid
If you knew Digitalk then remember the contribution that Eric Clayberg provided
through the old Compuserve forums. A lot of us would never have got started if
we hadn’t had that support. Eric’s knowledge and help got me going back with
Mac System 7 and Digitalk back in 1990.
David
> On 25 Jul
In terms of widespread availability and durability across implementations,
the guys that made Seaside deserve a big shout out.
On Sun, Jul 25, 2021, 11:54 Esteban Maringolo wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 11:31 AM Tim Mackinnon wrote:
> > Isn’t this the wrong question to ask? I’m assuming
On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 11:31 AM Tim Mackinnon wrote:
> Isn’t this the wrong question to ask? I’m assuming this is to do with
> Smalltalk’s 50th anniversary, and of course we are grateful to those early
> pioneers who did lots of work in the field 20-30 years ago but to me that’s
> the old
I agree wholeheartedly with Tim. I first started with Smalltalk in the
Digitalk days. My experience then and throughout my Smalltalk experience
with VW, Squeak, etc., I have never had a community that helped me learn
and embrace Smalltalk like Pharo and the Pharo Community. To me, if I
cannot be
I forgot to mention in my answer - this should in no way detract from the
visions of other projects some of which I’m less familiar with - Squeak, Cuis,
GT, SqueakJS, Livey, Caffeine… I’m in awe of all of them…
And I think that’s my point - it’s the communities and the work they do to
Isn’t this the wrong question to ask? I’m assuming this is to do with
Smalltalk’s 50th anniversary, and of course we are grateful to those early
pioneers who did lots of work in the field 20-30 years ago but to me that’s the
old history and while it’s interesting to call out, it doesn’t shed
Eric Clayberg - John O’Keefe??
> On 25 Jul 2021, at 09:33, Richard Sargent wrote:
>
> Dave Thomas of OTI probably ranks in your list.
>
> On July 24, 2021 3:44:40 PM PDT, horrido.hobb...@gmail.com wrote:
> I’m looking for a list of individuals who have contributed greatly to the
> advancement
Dave Thomas of OTI probably ranks in your list.
On July 24, 2021 3:44:40 PM PDT, horrido.hobb...@gmail.com wrote:
>I’m looking for a list of individuals who have contributed greatly to
>the advancement of Smalltalk, post Xerox PARC period (1972-1980). By
>advancement, I don’t only mean on a
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