[Cuis] [Pharo-project] Slides for a talk on "Why I Still Use Smalltalk" for comments

[Stephen Travis Pope]

Hi there Hannes (Grüss Gott!),


I just updated the PDF file on-line with the final version of the slides.

	http://HeavenEverywhere.com/STP_ST80_Talk_Slides.pdf

There'll be a video of the presentation in a few days.


My recent work has been using the Siren framework for building music databases for search engines and similarity matching.

Here's the software

	http://FASTLabInc.com/Siren

Here's a recent picture of a music analysis and feature vector manager

	http://FASTLabInc.com/Siren/SirenMAK.jpg

Here's a brand-new picture of an iTunes database clean-up expert system

	http://FASTLabInc.com/Siren/Siren_iTunes.jpg

Here's the trailer of my recent film,

	http://HeavenEverywhere.com/Secrets

and a sampler of older pieces made with Smalltalk,

	http://HeavenEverywhere.com/RitualAndMemory/Tour

	
stp

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Stephen Travis Pope   Santa Barbara, California, USA    http://HeavenEverywhere.com
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On Jan 17, 2013, at 2:21 AM, H. Hirzel wrote:

> Hello
> 
> FYI,
> 
> The following presentation was sent to the Pharo list this month and I
> think it is interesting for Cuis as well as it is a distribution
> linked to Squeak. The presentation  has a lot of screen shots taken
> from Squeak and Pharo.
> 
> Stephen, I'd like to know more about what you are using Smalltalk
> these days, any links?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Hannes
> 
> P.S.
> Please include
> stephen at heaveneverywhere.com
> in your replies as he is probably not on this list and he invited comments.
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Stephen Travis Pope <stephen at heaveneverywhere.com>
> Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 17:21:44 -0800
> Subject: [Pharo-project] Slides for a talk on "Why I Still Use
> Smalltalk" for comments
> To: vwnc <vwnc at cs.uiuc.edu>, pharo-project at lists.gforge.inria.fr
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I've put together a set of slides for a 90-minute lecture/demo on "Why
> I Still Use Smalltalk" to be given to a colloquium of graduate media
> arts and technology students at UCSB (where I taught from 1996-2010).
> I up-loaded the slides for your comments; there's a 19-page PDF file
> (6 slides per page) at,
> 
> 	http://HeavenEverywhere.com/STP_ST80_Talk_Slides.pdf
> 
> Your comments/questions are welcome...
> 
> (The demo at the start will be using VisualWorks to build the
> canonical up/down counter.)
> 
> (Slide 12 is me and the head of the composition department at UCSB,
> both in 1984, for context.)
> 
> stp
> 
> --
> 
> Stephen Travis Pope   Santa Barbara, California, USA
> http://HeavenEverywhere.com
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: Stephen Travis Pope <stephen at heaveneverywhere.com>
>> Date: October 26, 2012 12:47:55 PM PDT
>> To: vwnc <vwnc at cs.uiuc.edu>
>> Cc: Stephen Travis Pope <stephen at heaveneverywhere.com>
>> Subject: Outline of a talk on "Why I Still Use Smalltalk" for comments
>> 
>> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I'm planning to give a colloquium called "Why I Still Use Smalltalk" for the graduate students at UCSB, and wanted to solicit your comments on the outline.
>> 
>> stp
>> 
>> --------------------
>> 
>> Why I Still Use Smalltalk
>> 
>> 	Graduate Colloquium
>> 	UCSB Graduate Program in Media Arts and Technology
>> 	November, 2012
>> 	Stephen Travis Pope, stephen at FASTLabInc.com
>> 
>> --------------------
>> 
>> Proposal
>> 
>> Title: Why I Still Use Smalltalk
>> 
>> Abstract
>> 
>> The Smalltalk-80 programming system is celebrating its 30th birthday this year (Smalltalk-80 version 2 was released and documented in a series of books in 1982). The system was the first popular software development tool that incorporated a number of features we take for granted today, including an object-oriented programming language, a comprehensive open-source class library, an integrated window-based development environment, and a cross-platform virtual-machine-based delivery system. Nevertheless, Smalltalk has nowhere near the installed base or the mindshare of lesser peers such as C++ or Java, or more modern descendants such as Python or Ruby. This talk will introduce the Smalltalk system's language, libraries and tools, outline its history, and discuss the reasons why it is not more widely used. Several aspects of the Smalltalk system make it especially good for developing multimedia applications, and these will be introduced with examples from the last 30 years. The presenter was among the very first to use Smalltalk for real-world applications, and worked on the Smalltalk team at Xerox PARC and their spin-off ParcPlace Systems from 1986-94. He still uses Smalltalk (now available in both commercial and free versions) for his day-to-day work.
>> 
>> Presenter
>> 
>> Stephen Travis Pope is a software engineer and composer based in Santa Barbara. He taught at UCSB (in the departments of Music and Computer Science, and the Graduate Program in Media Arts and Technology) from 1996-2010, and is now known as FASTLabInc.com (for multimedia software) and HeavenEverywhere.com (for music and film).
>> 
>> Stephen Travis Pope   Santa Barbara, California, USA    http://HeavenEverywhere.com
>>