On 12 Nov 2014, at 10:05, Igor Stasenko <siguctua@gmail.com> wrote:



On 10 November 2014 12:18, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr> wrote:

> On 10 Nov 2014, at 11:59, phil@highoctane.be wrote:
>
> I'd say that we have all have suffered enough from a sucky text editor.
>
> So, let's jump over the chasm with no regrets.
>
> We aren't doing Squeak, right?
>

I Squeak, there was always some simple next step. But the community always said:
���No, Genius person X is working on Y which will be oh-so-much-better���.

And therefore, the next step was not done. Of course, Genius Person never finshed
Y, because, after nearly doing it, he realised: Wow, one can do it even better!

And thus nothing was ever done.

You should think of it in positive manner: there still a progress - the Genius learned how to make it even better!
Who said that progress should always affect whole community, not just single Genius Person? :)


As long as it does not hold back the community��� the vicious feedback cycle was that people stopped doing
because they were waiting. Why improve the system if it will be replace ���very soon���? The problem is if that
���very soon��� never happens, the system is dead.

Marcus