Comments on: Help improving the Smalltalk experience on the OLPC machine http://news.squeak.org/2007/04/11/help-improving-the-smalltalk-experience-on-the-olpc-machine/ What's new in the world of Squeak Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:57:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Don't Miss Smalltalk Solutions - April 30th - May 2nd 2007 « The Weekly Squeak http://news.squeak.org/2007/04/11/help-improving-the-smalltalk-experience-on-the-olpc-machine/#comment-5534 Don't Miss Smalltalk Solutions - April 30th - May 2nd 2007 « The Weekly Squeak Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:13:43 +0000 http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/help-improving-the-smalltalk-experience-on-the-olpc-machine/#comment-5534 [...] about OLPC! The One Laptop Per Child initiative is a wonderful way for all smalltalkers to get involved and contribute to something that is really worthwhile! Posted by Ron Teitelbaum Filed in Seaside, OLPC, [...] [...] about OLPC! The One Laptop Per Child initiative is a wonderful way for all smalltalkers to get involved and contribute to something that is really worthwhile! Posted by Ron Teitelbaum Filed in Seaside, OLPC, [...]

]]> By: gcorriga http://news.squeak.org/2007/04/11/help-improving-the-smalltalk-experience-on-the-olpc-machine/#comment-4220 gcorriga Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:12:04 +0000 http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/help-improving-the-smalltalk-experience-on-the-olpc-machine/#comment-4220 Hi Andreas, you are right of course. I mistakenly assumed the message to which Bert was replying (that contained the term "hide") was from another Squeak OLPC developer. Thanks for pointing this out. Hi Andreas, you are right of course. I mistakenly assumed the message to which Bert was replying (that contained the term “hide”) was from another Squeak OLPC developer. Thanks for pointing this out.

]]> By: Andreas Raab http://news.squeak.org/2007/04/11/help-improving-the-smalltalk-experience-on-the-olpc-machine/#comment-4218 Andreas Raab Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:01:16 +0000 http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/help-improving-the-smalltalk-experience-on-the-olpc-machine/#comment-4218 I think the statement that "the OLPC developers decided to hide the Smalltalk development enviroment and highlight the Etoys subsystem, in order not to confuse the beginner users of the laptop" is (deliberately?) misleading. OLPC is a kids machine, not a Smalltalk machine - the only reason Squeak is on there is that eToys are implemented in Squeak. If eToys were implemented in Lisp there would be Lisp on the machine and it would be equally hidden - because it is eToys that matter for the kids machine, not Smalltalk. I think the statement that “the OLPC developers decided to hide the Smalltalk development enviroment and highlight the Etoys subsystem, in order not to confuse the beginner users of the laptop” is (deliberately?) misleading.

OLPC is a kids machine, not a Smalltalk machine – the only reason Squeak is on there is that eToys are implemented in Squeak. If eToys were implemented in Lisp there would be Lisp on the machine and it would be equally hidden – because it is eToys that matter for the kids machine, not Smalltalk.

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