<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On 18.04.2016, at 17:28, Dave Crossland <<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" class="">dave@lab6.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra">Hi</div><div class="gmail_extra">I spent a lot of time yesterday reading about the history of smalltalk, and it seems undervalued. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/search?q=squeak&cat=all" class="">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/search?q=squeak&cat=all</a> only produces 1 result, etoys. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><div>When OLPC development was started, Squeak was indeed considered as an implementation language, but ultimately Python was selected in the hope of tapping into the larger open-source community (the Smalltalk developer community is quite small compared to Python users). Alan even gave a keynote at Pycon but I don’t think it actually lead to a big influx of developers for Sugar.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Etoys has been pretty much the only non-Python activity for a very long time (I’m not sure if there is another one nowadays). See</div><div class=""><a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Low-level_Activity_API" class="">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Low-level_Activity_API</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra">Are any other activities written in squeak?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Very few, but yes:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4054" class="">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4054</a></div><div><a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4235" class="">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4235</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>… and some more at:</div><div><a href="http://hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/projects/olpc/" class="">http://hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/projects/olpc/</a></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra">Can other activities be made within etoys? <br clear="all" class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>In Etoys you create projects, and there is a way to make a Sugar activity from a project, but that is more of an experimental feature, we never added a proper UI:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><img apple-inline="yes" id="B70E3ECB-CBC9-4316-9495-A049D6CC7E75" height="236" width="752" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:8D45C6D9-A17E-48A9-B2B6-9003279E0418@Speedport_W_724V_01011603_00_008" class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
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