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I'm currently learning Smalltalk in the Squeak environment and I'm reading "Squeak - A Quick Trip To ObjectLand". I enter the object-oriented paradigm with some prior knowledge from Python and Java and this sentence from the book on page 36 has made me think: Smalltalk is a class-based implementation of an object-oriented language. Short sentence but very interesting. In OO all terms like class, object, instance seem to be well-defined and seem to point to the one and only true meaning and you're likely to come across generic sentences like "objects are instances of a class". But you hear

I am using the Squeak 5 class SecureSMTPClient to send e-Mails over SSL/TLS. It works fine on my Windows machine (thanks to the answer to that question ). However, on Linux i get: Error: primitiveSSLCreate failed And it prints in a console (but only the first time the image attempts to send the mail): # ioLoadModule(/home/squeak5vm/SqueakSSL): /home/squeak5vm/SqueakSSL: undefined symbol: clock_gettime Squeak "primitives" are functions that talk to the platform and libraries. My guess is, that this Linux does not provide some version of some SSL/TLS library that Squeak expects. But what exactly

I'm considering building a visual programming language , akin to Scratch , for use by children (a.k.a. poor typists) in programming micro-controllers or robots. There is, for example, a project to build a graphical programming environment for the Arduino . I really like Scratch, and would like the graphical coding to be similar. Scratches source is available under its own free license. It is written in Squeak (based on Smalltalk), and I don't know the language. It occurs to me there might be other projects to build off of. When I looked through Wikipedia's list of graphical languages, I didn't

I am using Squeak 4.4 update 12327, and VM version 4.1.1. I tried to load VMMaker with ConfigurationOf scripts but always fails with exceptions mainly in the Freetype package. Gofer new squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository'; package: 'ConfigurationOfVMMaker'; load. ((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfVMMaker) project version: '1.4') load or Gofer new squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository'; package: 'ConfigurationOfVMMaker'; load. (Smalltalk at:#ConfigurationOfVMMaker) project lastVersion load. or Gofer new squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository'; package: 'ConfigurationOfVMMaker'; load.

Lots of languages have microframeworks for writing very tiny websites or web services, such as Flask for Python, or Sinatra for Ruby. On Squeak, there doesn't seem to be any equivalent; Iliad, Seaside, and AIDA are all very heavy for just having a little service. What's the preferred way to accomplish this? Directly injecting a hanlder into Comanche or Swazoo? Sebastian N. I would like to share what I think is more up-to-date information (as of end of 2012). Zinc Components Currently in Pharo 1.4/2.0 the de-facto standard for HTTP client/server seems to be the Zinc HTTP Components . And the