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David N. Smith
Last updated at 2:55 pm UTC on 14 January 2006
Sadly, Dave died in April 2004. His many friends will remember him always as a damn fine chap. An IBM bigwig once described him to me as "Dave Smith - 6ft lots, 350lbs, does anything he damn well likes". Fortunately for us, Dave liked to come up with interesting things. Gonna miss him.


Email: dnsmith@watson.ibm.com

WWW: http://www.dnsmith.com

Squeak goodies: http://www.dnsmith.com/squeak/

How to do drag&drop in Morphic (through 2.8): http://www.dnsmith.com/squeak/dragdrop

Prompting the User, a collection of ways to prompt for permission, strings, etc. Prompting the user

My webpage has info on books I've written, my buddy Archie who sleeps under my feet, and more.

I'm a programmer who started on punch cards in the mid-60's writing FORTRAN, then S/360 Assembler, then C, then Smalltalk, with stops along the way for brief visits or parallel activities with many others. I haven't missed punch cards since the first time I carried a tray of them (4000 cards + steel drawer) 500 feet to 'submit' a 'job'.

I started using Smalltalk in about 1984 with Ungar's Sun VM and an image licensed from Adele Goldberg at XEROX PARC. I tended to follow the Digitalk track once Methods and Smalltalk/V were out.

When IBM Smalltalk came out I switched, and have used it since version 1 for most things. I keep as many variants of Smalltalk around as I can get free or afford, and it hasn't been more than a couple of years or so that I last wrote some production code in V/Mac. One cannot understand Smalltalk if one lives within one implementation.

Since late 1999, I've been a serious and full time Squeaker, learning Morphic and other Squeak neat things. I'm now working on a project which uses Squeak and Morphic for a series of programs for 1st and 2nd graders. This isn't a product, but research. As of late 2001 it is in limited use in schools in NYC with a 'big' study planned for 2002.

I always use the middle initial 'N' in my name since there are a number of other Dave Smiths around the Smalltalk arena, including:

Dave W. Smith, from what was PARCPlace last I heard.
David Canfield Smith, of STAR fame and more.
David R. Smith, a student with strong opinions.