<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /></head><body style='font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif'> <p><br /></p> <p id="reply-intro">On 2024-06-23 08:19, Jaromir Matas via Cuis-dev wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0"> <div id="replybody1"> <style type="text/css">#replybody1 blockquote.v1cite { margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; } #replybody1 blockquote.v1cite2 { margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-top: 3px; padding-top: 0px; } #replybody1 a img { border: 0px; } #replybody1 table { border-collapse: collapse; } #replybody1 li[style='text-align: center;'], #replybody1 li[style='text-align: center; '], #replybody1 li[style='text-align: right;'], #replybody1 li[style='text-align: right; '] { list-style-position: inside; } #replybody1 { font-family: 'Segoe UI'; font-size: 12pt; } #replybody1 .v1quote { margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; border-left: 5px #ebebeb solid; padding-left: 0.3em; }</style> <div> <div> </div> <div> <div>On 22-Jun-24 4:01:06 AM, "lewis--- via Cuis-dev" <<a href="mailto:cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st" rel="noreferrer">cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st</a>> wrote:</div> </div> <div> </div> <div id="v1x405daaafacbd4dc"> <blockquote class="v1cite2" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p>This is a really good video conversation. </p> </blockquote> <div id="v1x405daaafacbd4dc"><span> </span></div> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Great indeed!</span></span></div> <div id="v1x405daaafacbd4dc"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br /></span></span> <blockquote class="v1cite2" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p>Juan explains Smalltalk and Cuis from first principles, with historical context and highlighting perspectives</p> </blockquote> <div id="v1x405daaafacbd4dc"><span> </span></div> <div id="v1x405daaafacbd4dc"><span>I'm not sure I understand the part about "knowledge" though: "Write, describe, communicate knowledge" - what does it mean exactly? Is it about Smalltalk as a language? The language itself is not that different from other (high-level) languages. A good language certainly is a great help to formulate things but it's still a "programming language". </span><span>I guess there more to it I didn't get :) </span></div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <div id="signature"></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>It really is more than just a programming language. It is an environment that lets you create objects to represent concepts, experiment with your ideas, and to document your understanding both with comments and with executable examples. In this way, Smalltalk is more about communicating knowledge rather than code and data.</div> <div> </div> <div>In my own experience, I have used Smalltalk to figure out problems related to automotive assembly plants, even if the ideas later get written in other languages (Java, C, SQL). It's just much more comfortable to do the thinking in Smalltalk.</div> <div> </div> <div>Dave</div> <div> </div> </body></html>