Ok, I found my Squeak Cookbook .
Did you ever had the sensation that you always are one step back? Ok, jokes apart, I will contribute to this project, after all, is a Wiki. Spread the word!
Back to the blueprints, searching the next crazy project…
It´s difficult to find good squeak smalltalk tutorials. There´s a lot of good tutorials about the Smalltalk language, but the tutorials about Squeak specifically are majority outdated. But this one is wonderfull: A Development Example for Squeak 3.9. Thanks Stephan Wessels for this great work.
But I miss a tutorial like Java Cookbook yet. Something showing examples of how to do some common tasks like opening files, multithreading, sockets, etc. I would like to start this type of work, but right now, time is a exparse resource. Someday, someday…
I’m very rational programmer, with a academic bias. I know C, C++, Java, Perl, PHP, VBScript, Object Pascal and Prolog languages. But my language of choice is beyond the rational. Smalltalk.
Smalltalk is much more than a language, is a concept, a vision. Much of what we use today was inspired in the Smalltalk ideas and environment. Steve Jobs only saw the mouse and the window system, if he saw the Smalltalk language too, our lifes would be better now.
“But if Smalltalk is so good, why isn’t a mainstream language?” you can ask me. I guess it was a matter of investments, a big company behind, the resistance against the paradigm shift… Java is the main object oriented language today, and cleverly the language designer choose a syntax similar with C++. Smalltalk always was and is today a big lab beyond the common place.
If you don’t know Smalltalk, I invite you to take some time to know a free implementation, Squeak. I will try to present some features here, soon.