Hi Jan!
--- Jan Theodore Galkowski algebraist@salonmember.com wrote:
But the Other goes along the lines of some things talked a lot about here, the idea of providing a richer, better Director...
Viva Revolution!!!! I've noticed a (small?) amount of the Squeak community having been involved with Director. Macromedia created an industry standard with Director, roped alot of people into upgrades, and along with Authorware & Flash, seemed to be the dominant provider of multimedia development solutions. You only have to look at how fast Squeak loads, how many different operating systems it runs on, the features (from BitBlts to AliceWorlds) plus it's future direction to realise how significant a replacement it could/should be for the developer community. Imagine if the next generation of multimedia developers were based in Smalltalk, not some offspring of BASIC (hi Lingo). Imagine Smalltalk being the future "industry standard" language for multimedia development, and Squeak being the environment!? Smalltalk is more elegant than any scripting language could be, and just think, the same open-sourced nature of a Smalltalk image would be your content development environment too!! Perhaps this is what the original vision of "Smalltalk, meant for children to learn programming" was really about? It would empower developers with so much more freedom to create. Many Director developers i've known have become quite good at Director, and turned it into a little application development environment. They end up hating it because of the closed nature of the environment, and the lack of "real" powerful programming tools. I would much rather see an industry of open-sourced Smalltalkers, than a closed group of "knowledge is power, and my lingo is bigger than your lingo" Directors.
Just letting off 3 years of steam, ;-r Ali. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
And Ali has just neatly summed up my feelings about Toolbook by Asymetrix as well.
Speed and native multimedia access on a given platform are some of things that would be Squeaky limitations.
adam...
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..... They end up hating it because of the closed nature of the environment, and the lack of "real" powerful programming tools. I would much rather see an industry of open-sourced Smalltalkers, than a closed group of "knowledge is power, and my lingo is bigger than your lingo" Directors.
Just letting off 3 years of steam, ;-r Ali.
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