On Apr 22, 2012, at 8:04 PM, Chris Muller wrote:
Did your "Smalltalk Code Critic" tell you that or just another one of your biased opinions?
Wow, why so aggressive? Do you really do *not* see the problems that there are in Squeak?
Squeak is a fantastic media authoring environment
It is not. I was a promising *idea* (and part protopype) of a fantastic media enviroment in 1998. But then interestingly everyone decided that the best is to not improve it or make it real.
-- even old versions from years past embarass programs like, say, PowerPoint. It's text-handling is fantastic -- remember the release image delivered with text on the desktop flowing out one text box, following along a loop-de-loop spline and into another text box? What other programs that can do that today in 2012..?
It's a toy example. Adding a character means re-flowing everything. Unusable for larger texts.
In the spirit of Squeak, the original developers delivered a lot of power with little code. But yes, it's a complex domain and so reviewing the code in one afternoon may not meet your "aesthetic eye."
The complexity in Squeak code does *not* come from the domain. Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de