Category: Programming

links for 2006-10-16

Ambrai Smalltalk Ambrai Smalltalk is an implementation of the Smalltalk language and development environment for Mac OS X. They are currently offering free time-limited betas for download (tags: smalltalk programming mac osx...

C++GeneralProgramming

Patching Marc Rochkind’s Ux library

I've begun playing a bit with the Ux library from Marc Rochkind's book: Advanced UNIX Programming. Ux, recently mentioned by Bruce as well, is essentially a bunch of C++ wrappers for standard POSIX calls. Unfortunately, it didn't...

LinuxProgramming

Pronouncing “Valgrind”

Wow. From http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/faq.html#faq.pronounce: 1.1. How do you pronounce "Valgrind"? The "Val" as in the world "value". The "grind" is pronounced with a short 'i' -- ie. "grinned" (rhymes with "tinned") rather...

DebianLinuxProgrammingSmalltalkUbuntu

GNU Smalltalk 2.2 package for Debian and Ubuntu

I linked to this in another post, but I realized that a lot of people might not notice it at the bottom of a long post, so I thought I'd break it out into a separate post. gnu-smalltalk-2.2-1_i386.deb This 2.2 version that I...

LinuxProgrammingSmalltalkUbuntu

Cincom support: impressive

OK, now I am really impressed with Cincom. First, my friend Chris Smith has trouble installing on Gentoo and somebody from Cincom sees it on his blog and responds immediately. The issue turns out not be with Cincom but with...

LinuxProgrammingSmalltalkUbuntu

GNU Smalltalk

GNU Smalltalk is strange, once you've gotten accustomed to Squeak or VisualWorks. (more…)...

LinuxProgrammingSmalltalkUbuntu

The trick to installing Cincom Smalltalk on Ubuntu

I'd easily gotten Cincom Smalltalk (also known as VisualWorks) working on my PowerBook, but it would not install on my Ubuntu (Dapper Drake) Linux box. It took a while but I eventually found the solution. (more…)...