Hi,
On 09/23/11 15:32, Marcus Denker wrote:
Well it seems that Dave has and enjoyable experience in this vs thing
most of the time [1][2] until he hits metaprogramming, as he says:
"I'm pretty tired of everything being a "pattern" in Smalltalk.
Metaprogramming can be done with Smalltalk but its more tedious than
Ruby because there is no good way to explicitly show the logic you're
using, and you need a class for everything. But that'll be in another
post soon"
and:
"You can dynamically create classes & methods in Smalltalk, but most
metaprogramming I've seen and made isn't so much programming as just
complicated class lookup & method dispatching. Typically one would
outline some logic in the doesNotUnderstand: method that does method
dispatch to other methods, however those method names are up to you to name.
So your method names end up being programming by convention if you want
the names to clue you in on anything. You also have method protocols,
but I've found those are typically out of sync with the latest updates
in my code and other libraries I've used"
[1]
http://futuremint.com/caching-in-seaside-vs-rails[2]
http://futuremint.com/refactoring-smalltalk-is-easier-than-refactorAs a newbie that's way too advanced for me, but, because we need to
manage several projects with Redmine[3] I ended reading a little of
Ruby[4] and I really enjoyed the similarities and differences with
Smalltalk. So this thread comes in a good timing for me.
[3]
http://www.redmine.org/[4]
http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/My personal learning experience with Smalltalk went from teaching
introductory programming with Etoys, Bots Inc, to Pharo to Seaside. In
this travel, I found another apps and ways, but most of the time I
return to Smalltalk even if I'm still a newbie after several years of
being around. And as a newbie, when I found post like David's I ask
myself "what keeps me in Smalltalk? why, when I think in learning
programming, I think in learning it in Smalltalk, after all this years,
instead of more popular ones?" and for me, the answer is the community
and the kind of cohesive, coherent and self contained experience of
programming in Smalltalk vs programming in anything else. Still I would
like to see the flexibility of python's syntax in the ways of expressing
a program vs "everything is an object and you can't cheat" --in python
you can and in fact that keep me away of the Smalltalk language a lot of
time.
Meanwhile, trying to spread the word about Smalltalk here (in Bogotá,
Colombia) is about building things with it that can be not be build so
easily/coherently with other things. I'm thinking in building a "pocket
web experience", something that you can keep in a USB drive in your
pocket, connect to any computer on Mac/Linux/Windows everywhere and let
you post your content, keep it with you, synchronize with your on-line
hosting (may be on seasidehosting.st or smallharbour.org) and share and
talk about it using social networks (but without depend on them). People
here like this idea, but they ask me if is possible to make something
like things you do with XDV/Deliverance[5][6][7] and, as a newbie, I
have no clue... by the way, is possible?
[5]
http://www.slideshare.net/spliter/from-design-to-plone-site-xdvdriven-plone-theming[6]
http://www.slideshare.net/Jazkarta/easier-and-faster-plone-theming-with-deliverance-and-xdv[7]
http://laplone.org/presentations/deliverance-vs-xdv-wpd2010.pdfAnyway I just want to share some thoughts and questions about what this
thread brings to my mind, but this post is getting too long, so thanks
for listening and for the teaching.
Cheers,
Offray
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