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From: tima@agora.rain.com (Tim Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Little Smalltalk
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.173302.1361@agora.rain.com>
Date: 28 Feb 91 17:33:02 GMT
References: <1991Feb27.215835.1513@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU>
Organization: Open Communications Forum
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tim budd writes...

>Well, judging from the requests I continue to receive, I may have been 
>premature in thinking that Little Smalltalk was dead.
>There still seems to be a need for a Smalltalk that is really small enough
>to be understood easily.  I view Little Smalltalk more as a pedagogical
>tool - a learning experience, and certainly not for any serious development.
>
   ...
>--tim budd, oregon state university, budd@cs.orst.edu

As a matter of fact, I have just dug up version 3 of Little Smalltalk to 
play with. It seems that I am doomed to write an editor (I cannot for the 
life of me find an editor that has unlimited file space, EXTREMELY small
command set WITH reasonably designed source code...) and I thought I'd 
do it in a kind of quasi Smalltalk language. My first order of the day is
to disect Little Smalltalk and see how it works! (No comments on your code
however, I haven't looked at it yet ;-) )

I have to say that I certainly wouldn't jump into GNU's at all, and I can't 
currently afford ST/V WIN (after buying ST/V, ST/V OS/2, ST/V 286...) even
with Digitalk's wonderful offer. My requirements are basically SMALL SIZE,
SMALL SIZE, and SMALL SIZE. Did I mention SMALL SIZE? As much as I love to
play with Smalltalk, I don't have a decade to figure out the inner workings
of the system (I unfortunately have bills to pay...) and bang out a virtual
expandable text editor.

I guess my rambling post was just designed to say 'Thanx for the cool toy,
dude!' I will be burying myself in your book for then next few weeks to see
if I can make heads or tails out of it! I might even try to design a PC front
end for the 99.99% of the world that doesn't have X or MAC'S ;-)

tima@agora.rain.com