On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr> wrote:

In general, the idea of "you have to ask and get the ok from the list for every change"
is dangerous... the Smalltalk people are *extremely* conservative. If you ask, the only
answer will be "NO". Smalltalk is perfect. There is nothing to improve. And even the bad
things: people use the for decades. If we want change, it will be hard...

Such a prejudiced mischaracterisation!�� Marcus, listen to yourself.�� Please, look into your heart and rethink this.

Yes, sorry... that was formulated far too strong... :-)��
But if I look back I sometimes think that it would have been better to try and fail than to get convinced in a Mailinglist
discussion to not even start...��

Yes, I'm sure many, if not all of us know what you mean.�� But there are naysayers in almost any community /and/ there is a time for caution in almost all software communities.�� I think Sean's request for careful discussion of UI changes late in the release cycle is sane.�� We can perhaps all try and be less defensive.�� But I hope we'll all continue having fun!
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best,
Eliot