Thank you, John.
I always appreciate your reports.
The "womens' bellybuttons" were a paridigm shift on several levels. <g>
What struck me most from the report was encapsulated in the remarks about Sutherland's "[not knowing] it was hard" to have come up with all he did, and the comment that the PARC folks ". . . thought IBM was so much brighter" while far surpassing them.
The "nuclear control panel" also resonated with me; I have not yet developed sufficient fluency with Squeak to pack away my pencils and pads of paper, but I realized as I read the comment that I now reach for Squeak first, then to the pencils if I must. To do creative work in Windows is a nightmare, like cooking with a blowtorch and a shovel.
Anyway, thanks again for posting these reports, and for your other fine work on behalf of the Smalltalk community.
Gary
----- Original Message ----- From: "John M McIntosh" johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 3:45 PM Subject: Alan's ACM talk at OOPLSA 2004
As usual I've taken some notes about Smalltalk at OOPLSA and have posted coverage of Alan's talk at http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/CampSmalltalk/OOPSLA+2004+Trip+report
Please take a peek and because it's a wiki make any corrections or provide more material.
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