I just thought I'd point out (since I don't remember seeing it anywhere) that Self's syntax makes it very easy to use in an interactive setting. The fact that you can just define slots in lobby (or its delegates) and use them as 'commands' makes it roughly as easy to interact with as a shell -- the syntax is a little more verbose than a shell's ("copy: 'a' To: 'b'" instead of "cp a b"), but its functional nature makes it easier to deal with, so maybe those tradeoffs cancel...

Once Self runs on my NeXT, I'm gonna experiment with making a command shell, to see if I like it better than csh...

-- Bill burdick@mentor.cc.purdue.edu