Ah come on, the code is powerful but not that approachable. Dan Ingalls even recognized that his text-flowing-through-a-tube was just to prove it was doable, not that it was maintainable or anything.

Cuis does less but is nicer to learn.�
Pharo is opinionated but a benevolent dictatorship is (for me) better than anarchy that runs in circles.

And without new learners, guess what? You die. A slow death but a death.

I don't want to touch Squeak with pole anymore now that Pharo and Cuis are around.

That's my biased opinion and I stand by it, especially by 2012 standards.

Phil
2012/4/22 Chris Muller <asqueaker@gmail.com>
Did your "Smalltalk Code Critic" tell you that or just another one of
your biased opinions? Squeak is a fantastic media authoring
environment -- 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..?

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."


On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr> wrote:
>
> On Apr 21, 2012, at 9:17 PM, phil@highoctane.be wrote:
>
>> Great news!
>>
>> I am currently busy looking after Text, TextAttributes, TextConstants, Paragraph... and god, it went through the grinder and it shows.
>>
>
> Isn't it amazing how bad the Squeak code is for text and everything media considering that the goal was to be the media environment for the future?
>
> � � � �Marcus
>
>
> --
> Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de
>
>




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