You want me to use Smalltalk? OK I downloaded Squeak and plaed ayound with the cute MINI-OS-GUI-platform-thing.
Ok very different from what I had done before. Seemed to make easy stuff hard. Of course that could just be me not being used to that type of programming.
How long does it take to learn Squeak, I mean to really learn effectively?
Is there a way to use Smalltalk as an ordinary programming language?
Is there somewhere I can go to download and get going fast?
Squeak has a learning curve, that's for sure. The language itself it easy, but the environment is so different that it takes some getting used to. I would recommend Squeak By Example (http://squeakbyexample.org/).
Your whole environment is there. Your editor, and your API documents are the objects themselves. Open up a browser in the Squeak environment and start clicking around. Open up a workspace and a transcript and write some samples that use the classes you find in the browser.
Ok very different from what I had done before. Seemed to make easy stuff hard. Of course that could just be me not being used to that type of programming. How long does it take to learn Squeak, I mean to really learn effectively?
Is there a way to use Smalltalk as an ordinary programming language? Is there somewhere I can go to download and get going fast?