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Squeak Smalltalk is likely to be getting a lot more attention in the near future as one of the supported environments on the One Laptop Per Child machines. This was brought to mind last week chatting with Timothy Falconer, who recently met up with Alan Kay. Apparently Timothy mentioned RDF, and Kay's response was more or less "it's an open source codebase, you know what to do...".

Hmm, getting Semantic Web tools out to millions of kids would be rather nice.

I list an RDF API for Squeak as Yet Another Unfinished Project (I got as far as a crude object model and about half a Turtle parser before diving back into Python), but that was a good while ago. All I could find that's reasonably current is Rikaiko, apparently mostly coded as a summer school project. I've not had a look at the API yet (it's in a Monticello distro), but it does sound like there's enough in place to build stuff. I doubt they've had time to put together any kind of nice HTTP integration ( Seaside seems to be highly regarded) or a decent store. Then there's SPARQL.

My weekend coding plans currently revolve around learning Erlang, but I thought someone might be tempted to have a play with this. Squeak really is good fun.

btw, amongst the other supported languages is Logo, could we have turtle-driven turtle..?

See also : Logo for Kids