Scratchin & Squeakin

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A friend introduced me to scratch today. I wrote a trivial program with it - A plane falling down on an unassuming unaware kitty, with sound effects of course.

My kid loves it and I had fun writing it; if I can only use the term write. It’s more like playing with lego. Very nice medium for teaching programming to kids!

Of course, its all based on squeak; another horse from the time-ravaged smalltalk stables; a language which offers among other jaw-dropping features :-

  • which methods (yes, method not classes) to package in a deployment unit,
  • which version of classes (and methods) to deploy,
  • add behavior to any class (yes, anything/nothing is sacred); and this one is fun,
  • bend the smalltalk grammer itself to your iron will.

Ah, one wonders what variation of man’s unfathomable greed led to the sad demise of such a wonderful thing - and of course led to the ugliness I have to deal with day in and day out.

Java.

Programming could have been so much more fun!