Welcome to the wonderful world of squeak:
(Robin Williams genii voice on)
Vast, Cosmic Programming Powers!!!!
poorlymaintainedlibraries
Even if you are right, nothing prevents people to - load - fix - enh libraries We are working on books, chapters, ... and any help is welcomed. People often mentions that Python has good documentations, but documentations/tests.... do not get written magically. People do write them. We will make sure with Metacello that libraries gets archived and loadable since metacello will help us to build distributions. Kent Beck told me recently that we often forget that everything done (even simple) is not to be done anymore and that each time you do something you progress. This is an important vision behind pharo. Do something small and do it a lot. Everybody can do something small. Stef