13 Mar
2006
13 Mar
'06
1:02 p.m.
Cesare Marilungo wrote:
Brad Fuller wrote:
sure. There are multiple mailing lists as well. They are on the site,
too.
It's power is smalltalk - either visual works
or squeak
(http://squeak.org/About/)
If you are looking into programming languages, look into squeak. See the
link above for more than my brief intro here, but also the homepage for
info: http://squeak.org/
The complete system is open and at your disposal for modifying,
inspecting, learning, debugging, creating, etc.
Squeak runs on many platforms and the image is bit-identical for all
platforms (although there may be some a plugin that only runs on only
one or a few platforms - but I don't know of any off hand.)
Developers see: http://squeak.org/Features/Development/
I'd be happy to answer any questions about squeak.
brad
Brad,
are you involved in the squeak development? Can I countact you in
private?
Being an old HyperCard fan (wrote a mail reader more than ten years
ago with it) and then a Director developer and teacher, I'm excited by
what I've seen.
I think that as you explore you'll find that the
environment is rich.
I've just installed it and started playing but this is awesome.
Is the deployment easy?
you can deploy the image. There are methods available to
strip
everything out except what you want in and methods to strip out
development tools or disable them, disable morphic halos, etc. in a
nutshell: if you want to deploy an application it's fairly easy.
What about the license?
the license is on the
site. Note that it is open and freely
distributable. The license is being reviewed as well to make it more
open or to remove some items that are not open (for instance, there are
some fonts from apple included in the image.) I am not a part of the
legal issues so I can't really comment.
Thanks for the link!
c.