I wonder if a variation of that could be used in the iPhone as a legal App Store app or apps. Since you're not actually trying to run (?) a real program, but only learn the syntax of the language, would it get around Apple's licensing issues for the iphone apps? Would be a pretty decent "hook" for people to become more aware of Squeak/Smalltalk if it flew. Lawsopn Hernán Morales Durand wrote:
STicky is a pluggable real-time evaluator and/or translator workspace aimed to learn languages. For a quick overview please take a look at the presentation video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9uUIEaGyoU
The Smalltalk evaluator could be useful in learning courses or for newbies typing expressions, but other translators/evaluators may help with more advanced usage, it all depends of the source and target languages you're using. Some default external translators, which does the real job, were included :
Smalltalk to JavaScript (ST2JS by Diego Gomez Deck) Smalltlak to Java (Smalltalk2Java by Alexandre Bergel) Smalltalk to SQL (ROE by Avi Bryant) Smalltalk to AST nodes (Marcus Denker et al) HTML validator ( Todd Blanchard) JSON to Smalltalk (Tony Garnock-Jones et al) (...contact me if you want to add your translator in the release, a facility to automatic installation of translators is provided)
You can easily plug translators and the workspace will update the current contents dynamically inside a sticky-like dialog or a fixed pane, the updater interface was decoupled to make possible other kinds of widgets too, but this is a bit experimental. Downloads from:
http://www.squeaksource.com/STicky.html
Comments are welcome.
Hernán
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