Comments on: Towards a Mono for Silverlight, Dancing in The Moonlight http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/14/towards-a-mono-for-silverlight-dancing-in-the-moonlight/ An industry analyst blog looking at software ecosystems and convergence Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:24:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Andrew Shebanow http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/14/towards-a-mono-for-silverlight-dancing-in-the-moonlight/#comment-80888 Andrew Shebanow Tue, 15 May 2007 15:17:49 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/14/towards-a-mono-for-silverlight-dancing-in-the-moonlight/#comment-80888 Yes, the stuff Peter Fisk is doing is pretty amazing - I've written about him on my blog before. But he recently caught the attention of whytheluckystiff of Ruby fame, and what he had to say made me blow coffee through my nose: "Vista Smalltalk is incredibly precocious and capable. And yet, lots of things have changed and I couldn’t get hardly anything working from the tutorial. Instead of improving his tutorial and docs, the creator (Peter Fisk) is porting everything to the DLR. Uhm? Now I understand why all of you get so mad at me." http://hackety.org/2007/05/12/smalltalkIdealForVistaWhatThe.html Yes, the stuff Peter Fisk is doing is pretty amazing - I’ve written about him on my blog before. But he recently caught the attention of whytheluckystiff of Ruby fame, and what he had to say made me blow coffee through my nose:

“Vista Smalltalk is incredibly precocious and capable. And yet, lots of things have changed and I couldn’t get hardly anything working from the tutorial. Instead of improving his tutorial and docs, the creator (Peter Fisk) is porting everything to the DLR. Uhm? Now I understand why all of you get so mad at me.”

http://hackety.org/2007/05/12/smalltalkIdealForVistaWhatThe.html

]]> By: Patrick Mueller http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/14/towards-a-mono-for-silverlight-dancing-in-the-moonlight/#comment-80273 Patrick Mueller Mon, 14 May 2007 16:37:29 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/05/14/towards-a-mono-for-silverlight-dancing-in-the-moonlight/#comment-80273 Working on the JVM would be a bit of a step backwards, methinks, for Peter. Until Java has a DLR. And Peter's been focusing on webby clients, for whatever reason. No good webby Java client story today. Working on the JVM would be a bit of a step backwards, methinks, for Peter. Until Java has a DLR. And Peter’s been focusing on webby clients, for whatever reason. No good webby Java client story today.

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