Mobile Smalltalk

I have just discovered this interesting article about running Smalltalk on iOS and Android. Mobile Smalltalk https://simberon.blogspot.de/2017/11/mobile-smalltalk.html Well, writing your own VM is not for the faint-hearted, of course.

Learn Smalltalk?

Do you think one should learn Smalltalk nowadays? The following article has some information. Can Learning Smalltalk Make You A Better Programmer? https://developers.slashdot.org/story/16/12/31/0413250/can-learning-smalltalk-make-you-a-better-programmer I was surprised to read about Amber Smalltalk. A Smalltalk for the web.

Squeak Turns 20! — The Weekly Squeak

Please Donate to Squeak! Craig Latta writes: Hi all– Happy 20th birthday to us! It was twenty years ago that Dan Ingalls and the rest of Alan Kay’s team announced Squeak to the world. You really changed things with this run at the fence. […]

ESUG’16 Registration — The Weekly Squeak

Dear Smalltalkers, ESUG’16 registration is open! http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Conference-Registration We also provide you a selected list of hotels here: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/Hotels See you @ Prague, Luc — Dr. Luc Fabresse Associate-Professor in Computer Science Mines Douai, Institut Mines-Telecom, France http://car.mines-douai.fr/luc/ über ESUG’16 Registration — The Weekly Squeak

Making decisions

It is interesting to have a look at how you make decisions in different programming languages. In Python, for example, the code is straightforward. >>> if 1 < 2: …     print ‘smaller’ … else: …     print ‘bigger’ …  smaller >>>  […]