Search Methods in Squeak SmallTalk
Smalltalk is still the favorite toy of many programmers. He is just beautiful!
Just take the Method Finder: write what you have and what you need to get - smoltok finds the methods by which this can be done: Suppose we want to know when the programmer's day is this year. How to count? We need a method that returns the date of 256 days of the year. We know that February 2 is 33 days. We are looking for a method: Here it is. Everything is simple. Of course, no magic - just iterating over all methods of input objects. But it’s so simple and so useful! And nowhere except smoltok, no. And the holiday, by the way, on September 13:
Just take the Method Finder: write what you have and what you need to get - smoltok finds the methods by which this can be done: Suppose we want to know when the programmer's day is this year. How to count? We need a method that returns the date of 256 days of the year. We know that February 2 is 33 days. We are looking for a method: Here it is. Everything is simple. Of course, no magic - just iterating over all methods of input objects. But it’s so simple and so useful! And nowhere except smoltok, no. And the holiday, by the way, on September 13:
