Snow

I thought that the 8 inches of snow we got in Albuquerque last week was something, but now we have 16 inches of snow that came over the past two days. The previous snowfall had mostly melted; the temperatures have been warm enough to keep the snow from piling up.

At least we can use the precipitation. Hope it melts soon, because we may be getting more on Tuesday.

GNU Smalltalk

Category: GNU Smalltalk

I've seen several misconceptions about the way GNU Smalltalk works. This post includes a few of them. Yeah, I know the post is from a while ago.

Gnu Smalltalk by default is not graphic based.

The weird file syntax is one from the fileIn format. The bang (exclamation point) is used to "separate logical items". This format is also used by Squeak. Just fire up the "file list" browser in Squeak (available from the Open... menu item) to access the same type of files.

Adding the Browser package includes the gui most people are used to in Smalltalk. Adding the browser to GST is accomplished by starting GST and executing the following:

PackageLoader fileInPackage: 'Browser' !

This loads the package that you're interested in and takes care of the dependencies, if any. You can then save the image if you want so that you don't have to reload the pacakges with

ObjectMemeory snapshot: '/some/file/name' !

Gap

There's been a pretty big gap in my postings. I've been busy with other things, including a move.