GNU Smalltalk

Whenever I write something like the following, I feel homesick for ruby, where I never have to close files by myself. |stream| stream := FileStream fopen: 'registry.dump' mode: #write. [ ObjectDumper dump: registry to: stream ] ensure: [ stream ... [More] close ] Would anybody else beside me consider the following (fancily named) pattern useful? Object [ hire: aBlock fire: cleanup [ ^ [ aBlock value: self ] ensure: [ cleanup cull: self ] ] ]read more [Less]

First of all, let me tell you that the most pleasant surprise with gst was the community. It's a pleasure to be here and I have to give special thanks to Stefan Schmiedl, who is investing lots of time in discussing my n00by steps and has even found ... [More] the time to volunteer some code. The second thing is that being back to smalltalk is... a paradise. Back then I “learned to think” in smalltalk, so this is just like being able to communicate in one's mother language after an endless journey abroad.read more [Less]

There is now a public Mercurial based repository for our dictionary project, published at http://ambaradan.i-iter.org/ambaradan Not that it contains much at the moment, apart from a few proofs of concept. Yet, I thought that if anyone was interested in the discussions about localization we are making on the mailing list, this could be of help.

I build a lot of tools with my gcc whether in cygwin or in Msys but 2 have never built: GNU Prolog and GNU Smalltalk. The ./configure runs about 45 minutes with multiple duplicate tests but then fails to detect what it in fact requires. It appears ... [More] that all would work if I were a MS Visual Studio user. It would help if someone posted which version of gcc and which version of glut and which version of msys are claimed to work. It was no fun building under EeeBuntu but at least it could be done. This has been one nasty gotcha after another.read more [Less]

This was supposed to be a mail to the list, but since I am one of those who have trouble posting from gmail, I'll better put it here. We want to use an external CSS stylesheet on Iliad. This will make things much easier with the designers that help ... [More] the project, as they shall simply edit their stuff as they usually do. I started to adapt a basic code snippet published by Joachim Jaeckel at http://smalltalk.gnu.org/blog/joe/first-steps-iliad-web-development-gnu-... (very useful guide! Thanks :)read more [Less]

So here I am, some 14 years later... That's the time that has passed since smalltalk was paying my rent. Yet, history goes in cycles, and it's smalltalk time again. I won't talk much about what I'm working on, as I'm positive I'll end up in being ... [More] boring about it during the coming months. I'll rather explain why smalltalk, and why gnu-smalltalk in particular.read more [Less]

This post describes a session measuring the behavior of an Iliad web application using AJAX request. Memory consumption and run time were investigated for different numbers of simultaneous users. Spoiler Memory usage has drastically improved since ... [More] the first public test session, it is down by about 50%. There is still some room for improvement, but the changes of the last two weeks have been impressive. As far as speed and stability is concerned, the application performs very well, even under (relatively) heavy load.read more [Less]

Well, the summary says it all. . The first small steps were done quite some time ago, by rewriting every shell script that did not really need the shell in C or Smalltalk. Yesterday I finished the job, so that now it's possible to just do ... [More] ../configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 && make. It took a while for two reasons: first because I overlooked wineconsole and it turns out it's a crucial step to running GNU Smalltalk under Wine; second, because GNU Smalltalk runs at build time, and it has to interact with the Unix paths.read more [Less]

Hi, There is a new version of VisualGST (an IDE for GNU Smalltalk) with a lot of new things : - new IDE - new tools : Debugger, SUnit - Improved existing tools : You can use regex with the Implementor/Sender tools, undo/redo ... [More] support improved, compiler error(s) tabs, popup menu are enabled, browse the GST/GTK+ Documention, Shortcuts - Port of the Notification framework : Update the browser when you do a PackageLoader fileInPackage: '...', ... - Change the project organization - Bugs fixing ;) You need the GIT version of GST to use VisualGST 0.5.0read more [Less]

There is an extremely valuable (and small) vim plugin slime.vim out there, with a nice description of the how, why and what at the author's site: http://technotales.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/like-slime-for-vim/ With this simple plugin, you can edit ... [More] your code in a vim "worksheet" and send it over to *any* REPL (bash, gst, sbcl, vim, ...) that is running in a screen session.read more [Less]