Alan,
This is the second time (?) in the last week or so that you've teased us like this. Care to give us a hint? The suspense is unbearable! ;-)
-Carl
From: Alan Kay Alan.Kay@disney.com Reply-To: squeak@cs.uiuc.edu To: squeak@cs.uiuc.edu Subject: Re: Squeak Mentioned On O'Reilly Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 09:28:47 -0800
Let's just plan to give all a big surprise in a few months!
Cheers,
Alan
At 8:03 AM -0800 10/9/99, Carl Gundel wrote:
It's a shame that they peg it in the interview as a special purpose language. :-(
Also mentioned is that Squeak is a language used for movie production
(Huh?
Is this true?). I guess it is assumed that if it's a Disney project that
it
must be for making movies.
-Carl
FYI ... Squeak is mentioned briefly in an interview with Python creator Guido van Rossum at:
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On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Carl Gundel wrote:
This is the second time (?) in the last week or so that you've teased us like this. Care to give us a hint? The suspense is unbearable! ;-)
From: Alan Kay Alan.Kay@disney.com Let's just plan to give all a big surprise in a few months!
At 8:03 AM -0800 10/9/99, Carl Gundel wrote:
Also mentioned is that Squeak is a language used for movie production (Huh?Is this true?).
I had the pleasure to see a Squeak demo by Andreas Raab at the STJA conference in Erfurt (Germany) a few days ago. It was a real eye-opener. Squeak is *the* multi-media authoring system of the future. No other system provides that much freedom. It's just amazing what the Disney artists do with this system. And the best is: All the not content-depending code is in the base image, so we all could use it.
Ever wondered what a MoviePlayerMorph along with a MovieFrameSyncMorph and a SoundMorph is good for? Or the FlashPlayer? The Wonderland 3D framework?
For example, Andreas showed a multi-player game where kids steer a submarine and shoot with cute stuff at each other (it had a nice comic-like look) - and that one is already installed at Disneyland! Or, for another example, the ImageMorphWithSpotlight along with a colorful image makes a really nice intro to another scene (and the kids are slowed down because they first explore that image).
So my guess is that Disney will publish some cool game or other neat stuff powered by Squeak in the (hopefully near) future.
/bert
While reading this thread I am wondering if we should all collaborate on creating a killer demo for Squeak? One of the ways we can get grass roots enthusiasm is to show off cool stuff like this at local OO-related user group meetings.
- Steve
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