The Weekly Squeak

Dmitry Golubovsky has done some great work making Smalltalk work on the Android mobile platform. Check it out! http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-August/165296.html

The Altitude web framework has reintroduced work done on a new streams library – Xtreams. Traditional Smalltalk-80 streams have served well for decades. Michael Lucas-Smith and Martin Kobetic started Xtreams as an attempt to distill some of their experience into a new implementation of streams. A great video of the 2010 ESUG talk is available…

Alan Kay gave a talk at the ACM’s Turing Centenary Celebration. He used VPRI’s Frank (as in “Frankenstein’s monster”) research prototype, which is a built on top of Squeak4.3. To see the twenty minuted video, choose “Extracting Energy From the Turing Tarpit” from the playlist at the ACM’s website. http://turing100.acm.org/index.cfm?p=webcast

Colin Putney has released a new web framework called Altitude. Strongly influenced by Seaside, it is resource based instead of session based. It uses the new stream library Xtreams in conjunction with Filesystem, an extensible framework replacing the FileDirectory class. These posts explain how to get it, how it is different, and how to create…

Mark Guzdial and Georgia Tech used to be boosters of Squeak and Smalltalk. This article explains why they dropped Smalltalk. It comes complete with a post from Alan Kay: http://computinged.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/lisp-and-smalltalk-are-dead-its-c-all-the-way-down/ It’s clear that Georgia Tech feels it is being both practical and prudent. They have made their world smaller. They aspire to live in a…