On 1/15/14, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr> wrote:
On 15 Jan 2014, at 09:04, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr> wrote:
Etoys should have contributed to Squeak when they had the resources. To secure their own future.
âWe are not payed to work on Squeakâ, that is what I got toldâ¦
Probably correct at that time...
in a tone as if my questions was the dumbest question one could have asked.
In hindsight, I think that the more aggressive reaction I got, the more it was a sign of me actually being right, but I did not understand that back thanâ¦
Difference in philosophy and priorities. Many people assume you can build something new and well defined on an existing ground in spite of a lot of idiosyncrasies and inconsistencies. Just by wrapping and creating a DSL. But in Smalltalk the idiosyncrasies remain visible whereas in most cases you might hide them behind an API.
I just slowly and quietly despaired until I could not even sleep anymore at night.
And the history so far tells us that it is _a lot_ of clean up effort ..... Noteworthy however: Scratch is successful in spite of being built on a early version of Squeak. The situation of Etoys to the contrary is not so clear. A comparison needs to consider more factors than just the platform it is built on.... --Hannes