Posts Tagged ‘smalltalk’
Scratchin & Squeakin…
A friend introduced me to scratch today..wrote a trivial program with it…A plane falling down on an unassuming unaware kitty, with sound effects of course…My kid loves it and I had fun writing it…if I can use the term ‘write’…its more like playing with lego. Very nice medium for teaching programming to kids!
Of course, its all based on squeak; another horse from the time-ravaged smalltalk stables – a language which offers among other jaw-dropping features – which methods (yes, method not classes) to package in a deployment unit, which version of classes (and methods) to deploy, add behavior to any class (yes, any..nothing is sacred); and this one is fun – bend the smalltalk grammer itself to your iron will.
Ah, one wonders what variation of man’s unfathomable greed led to the sad demise of such a wonderful thing – and of course led to the ugliness I have to deal with day in and day out.
Java.
Programming could have been so much more fun!
