Re: [Help-smalltalk] Hello...

[Lyndon Tremblay]

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From: "Pupeno" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 6:08 AM
Subject: [Help-smalltalk] Hello...


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>Hello (gnu-)smalltalkers.
>I'll start presenting myself, my name is Pupeno (well, my official name is
>José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández) and I'm currently located in Buenos Aires,
>Argentina.

Hello =)

>I was recently introduced by Federico Heinz to the power of smalltalk (yes,
my
>little secure world built arround C++ crashed, and crashed hard!). He did
it
>in Squeak, but in the look for freer alternatives, I reached, obviusly,
>gnu-smalltalk and I've been studing it for a couple of days.
>I've read almost all the tutorial at
>http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/gst-manual/gst_28.html#SEC45 and I've
>found a comple of things that didn't work as expected or that didn't even
>work.

>One speciall thing I'm intresting in is:
>Smalltalk snapshot: 'myimage.im'
>which didn't work:
>$ gst
>GNU Smalltalk ready

>st> Smalltalk snapshot: 'myimage.im' !
>Object: SystemDictionary new: 512 "<0x402dc818>" error: did not understand
>#snapshot:
>SystemDictionary(Object)>>#doesNotUnderstand:
>SystemDictionary(BindingDictionary)>>#doesNotUnderstand:
>UndefinedObject>>#executeStatements
>nil
>st>

>can you tell me how to do it ?

It is now ObjectMemory>>#snapshot[:]

>I'm still having trouble understanding the concept of image, world and all
>that... if anybody know of a good on-line document about it, I will
>appretiate it a lot (I'm in the hunt of a copy of the blue box, no luck
yet).

http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/St76/Smalltalk76ProgrammingSystem.html

Is the "blue book" as I recall.

The concept of images takes some getting used to, but playing with Squeak
helped me out there. (ChangeSets, ImageSegment, versions, etc)


>Thanks.
>- -- 
>Pupeno: address@hidden - http://www.pupeno.com

>PS: Smalltalk inspired me a lot of ideas... my goal is the desktop, but
>generaly, an easier to use environment, even for servers... I'll post my
>ideas latter as they mature.

Great, I'm sure we'd love to hear them.

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