Re: [F-Script-talk] Porting FScript ideas (!)

[Marcel W. <ma...@me...>]

On Aug 29, 2006, at 3:31 , Giovanni Giorgi wrote:

> In two words, I liked a  lot the *way* FScript uses Smalltak.

Hmm...it doesn't really *use* Smalltalk at all:  it *is* a Smalltalk  
that uses Objective-C, both as its implementation language and its  
object library.

>
> I have tried before to use scripting in Smalltalk with no much lucky.
> GNU Smalltalk and Squeak use a lot of resources, and Java is also  
> quite heavy.

If you find Java too heavy, how would FScript built *on top of* Java  
help??

> I think SmallTalk is an optimal glue, even better then AppleScript
> or perl.

Agreed.  In fact, Smalltalk (note:  it's Smalltalk, not SmallTalk) has  
always been about "connecting things", or as Alan Kay put it  
"ma" ("interstitialness").  I also think this can and needs to be  
taken further.

Cheers,

Marcel