The Weekly Squeak

The Weekly Squeak

  • Squeak: toy or instrument?

    A message by Giuseppe Luigi Punzi sparked an interesting “philosophical” discussion on the nature of Squeak. Giuseppe remarks that for many developers who work with other languages, Squeak looks like a children toy with no serious applications built with it. To this Matthew Fulmer replied: Squeak is a toy. That is a good thing. Squeak…

  • Process Woes

    Since the beginning of the month there’s been a recurring theme on the squeak-dev mailing list regarding Squeak’s development process. The discussions started with a message from Goran Krampe about the evolution of Squeak’s development process and how to have a more community-oriented process. Many squeakers replied to this message; this response from Ken Causey…

  • Dynamic messages: a tour of Pepsi

    We have just started a new era in Squeak experimentation. Squeak is famous for the ideas floating around it, and for its open spirit. Ian Piumarta is already known for the efforts on the Unix port of Squeak. The last Ian work is Pepsi, a dynamic-compiled language which is promising very well. Weekly Squeak has…

  • Squeak 3.9 RC2

    Stephane Ducasse announced the availability of the second Release Candidate of Squeak 3.9. According to his message to the squeak-dev mailing list, there’s still one more bug to fix before the final 3.9 release.

  • 200,000 dowloads for Seaside

    Stephane Ducasse notes that Seaside downloads on SqueakSource have crossed the 200,000 downloads threshold. Rick Flower adds that this figure does not include the downloads of the VisualWorks port of Seaside, which is hosted on the Cincom public repository.

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