From: Bdale Garbee Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 07:01:00 +0000 (-0700) Subject: post X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?p=web%2Fgag.com;a=commitdiff_plain;h=743385b00fcc79620ddf2da397909bda5802e988 post --- diff --git a/bdale/blog/posts/Wow.mdwn b/bdale/blog/posts/Wow.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..949bc11 --- /dev/null +++ b/bdale/blog/posts/Wow.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +I had a chance to hear +[Alan Kay](http://www.viewpointsresearch.org/alan.html) +talk during a visit to HP Labs a week or so ago. Among other things, it +motivated me to finally sit down and have a look at +[Squeak](http://www.squeakland.org). + +I'd heard [Ted Kaehler](http://www.squeak.org/us/ted/) and others talk +about it. I have fond memories of playing with Smalltalk at various times +in the past, starting when I was an undergrad at CMU. I know the +folks in Extremadura include Squeak in the systems they deploy in schools, +and I even came home from Malaga with a CD containing their packages! But +I just hadn't ever gotten around to actually doing anything with Squeak. + +Now I have... and even better, so have my kids. ;-) +In fact, while I think I understand +what's actually going on better, my daughter now has spent much more time +playing with eToys than I have. I'm really curious to see how far she +goes with this... + +[[!tag tags/squeak]]