ANN: New Website for TAOO

[Dan Shafer]

I'm still struggling a bit to grok TAOO as well, Dennis. We've  
established that it's not extensible in the Smalltalk sense (i.e., by  
subclassing and overriding methods). It's more like a collection of  
Rev libraries that go one step beyond the usual libraries by  
providing a generalized framework within which you can build apps and  
other libraries more efficiently.

In that sense, I suspect it's more like a conventional programming  
language set of libraries. You load the libraries, then call their  
functions and commands, which are designed to be as generic as Xavier  
can make them to deal with the most common programming requirements  
he encounters in the kinds of apps he builds. He's inviting us to  
create new libraries that address other kinds of programming  
requirements.


On Oct 16, 2005, at 6:06 PM, Dennis Brown wrote:

> However, if you did not "get" Forth, you might not be able to tell  
> me if I have got any kind of mental hook to grab onto it yet.  I  
> understand Small Talk  is an extensible language and you are  
> familiar with it.  Can you draw any parallels in that direction?
>



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