[Edu-sig] Freedom: some Smalltalk history and Python implications

[Andreas Raab]

kirby urner wrote:
> How will Smalltalk help me with simple sequences, e.g. the triangular
> and then tetrahedral numbers?  That's all I want to know.  And the
> answer I usually get is:  first, you must go to a special world called
> Squeakland.  In Python, I just boot IDLE, enter the function, and run
> it.  Oh, so I should have my school go out and buy commercial grade
> SmallTalk instead?

I don't get that point. Why would you have to go and buy a commercial 
grade Smalltalk? For Squeakland, what you need to do is to go to 
http://www.squeakland.org/detect.html for download and install. Once 
done, you start it, open a workspace type in 3+4 and print the result. 
What am I missing?

Cheers,
   - Andreas