Re: FreePAN: an opportunity to share repositories!
[email protected] (Randal L. Schwartz)
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>>>>> "Ned" == Ned Konz <[email protected]> writes: Ned> <sidelight> Ned> Though not the subject of the main talk, I soon found myself answering Ned> questions about Squeak (and doing some promotion <g>). There were Ned> several people in the crowd who were interested. Ned> After the meeting, we went to a pub for a beer or two. There I Ned> demonstrated Squeak to several interested people (note to self: get a Ned> good demo together to show to programmers). Ned> I think that with the right kind of introduction and modular system we Ned> could convert a bunch of Perl programmers. Ned> </sidelight> Works for me. :) I seem to have mentioned Squeak at least once at every Perl or Linux group meeting I've attended. My argument is "you don't know OO until you've used a pure OO language", and when people ask me how to fulfill that, I suggest they find a good Smalltalk or Eiffel or Ruby implementation. "Smalltalk - that's long dead, right?" and then I point them at Squeak. Neat. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!