Lets rest it. as people might guess, I am still sad about Squeak. lets say
it like
that: I *really* *really* believed in it (the whole thing, dynabook and all), and I still think one could have done much better than we have.
And it's not a problem that it failed: it is a problem hat it was hold back explicitly that makes me sad. How great could it have been!
Just imagine a system that is improved, radically, over 20 years. every day a bit, every year a release, building always on top of a stable base created before...
Marcus
The Pharo fork made me sad too. I wonder sometime if I had put in more time if I could have helped settle the rift and keep the community together. There is a lot of good work going on with Pharo now so maybe the fork was a good thing but I do wish we could all be working on one code base instead. I'm sure I will get used to the split eventually. Ron