The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Video of Newspeak lecture now available

    The video has now been posted of Gilad Bracha‘s talk on Newspeak that we mentioned last month. Newspeak is a new dynamic language being developed at Cadence, and is descended from Smalltalk and Self, with influences from E, Scala and Scheme, exploring ideas around combinatorial parsing, strict message-passing, reflectivity, capability-based security and actor-style concurrency. Newspeak…

  • Waveplace in the US Virgin Islands

    Hi everyone, We’ve just posted two new videos from the St John Waveplace pilot, which concluded three weeks ago. The first shows mentoring during the pilot. The second shows students presenting their Etoys storybooks. 1) Scenes from the St John pilot (4 minutes) http://waveplace.com/locations/usvi/movie.jsp?id=45 2) The St John Storybook Awards (8 minutes) http://waveplace.com/locations/usvi/movie.jsp?id=44 We will…

  • Free Smalltalk books

    Stéphane Ducasse maintains a great list of free Smalltalk books including online pdfs of many out-of-print books. These books span over twenty years of Smalltalk development, and includes great resources such as Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation (the “Blue Book”), Smalltalk with Style(pdf), and more recent classics such as Squeak by Example (written by…

  • Squeak ported to Syllable

    Squeak has just been ported to Syllable Desktop OS by Kelly Wilson. The Syllable project has an active community which aims to develop easy-to-use Free Software operating systems for the home and small office user. Syllable Desktop OS is a continuation of work on AtheOS operating system, which has been around for a few years,…

  • The Year of Smalltalk

    Randal L. Schwartz just announced that he will be giving a 3 hour tour of Seaside at OSCON 2008. We are very proud to have Randal on the Squeak Foundation Board. We are looking forward to more of his “Year of Smalltalk“. [Edit: corrected spelling]

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