> To this point you have done what you have done. Now, to my mind at least, if > you could work out a way to bring the Squeak Trunk and Pharo forks, and other > developments like Keith's important work with Sake/Packages and Bob the > Builder, together so that so terribly much effort is not being wasted doing > the same things over and over again, you will really have accomplished > something.
We will try but it takes a lot of energy. Also because Squeak is redoing a lot of the fixes/changes we did nearly one year ago. Now we will try to check the important changes. > And remember too that the most important thing you can give your children is > your undivided time and attention. All too soon they will be grown up and on > their own. I will :) I'm starting to play Magic The gathering with them :) and pharo is a kind of child too :) > If you find yourself often saying things like, "Not now, Daddy's too busy.", > pretty soon you will find they will stop coming around. > > Ken G. Brown > > At 9:37 PM +0100 1/6/10, [email protected] > apparently wrote: >> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 21:13:24 +0100 >> From: St?phane Ducasse <[email protected]> >> Subject: [Pharo-project] About my recursive blues :) >> To: "[email protected] Development" >> <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> Hi guys >> >> Sometimes I'm not in good mood. Today I was in a bad bad mood. Quite bad >> even badder. >> I was wondering why I was doing all that and the rest. What was the use to >> do Pharo >> if we get Squeak doing exactly the same - Ok we were right long time ago but >> still seeing all the removal of >> crappy code we begged to be removed and got bashed for and also doing all >> that effort and seeing it redone >> was not helping. Being right sometimes is not even cool :) So a plain bad >> day.... cold and rainy. >> I was frustrated that I cannot be somebody else, doing stuff full time and >> no other duties >> and going faster. In short nothing was working and I was a frustation ball >> like I'm good at being. >> >> But my kids were there and we had to go swimming! After going swimming and >> not thinking then thinking >> and discussing with some remote friends and emails. (Thanks guys you know >> who you are) also thinking about other >> people's attention and remarks in other contexts, my good mood came back >> even stronger than before >> because I came up to the conclusion that my remote friends were right (BTW >> thanks pharoers some of you inspire me today >> during my bad mood - alain, henrik, danny, lukas...) >> So what is the conclusion of all that? >> >> - I have a cool job (one of the best research positions in europe - not >> easy everyday >> but cool and with people supporting me with my crazy idea....imagine >> coding in smalltalk >> building an international team doing smalltalkish stuff). >> >> - we can invest for 5 years or even 10. Close your eyes and imagine we >> can decide now what >> we want to do now for the next 10 years and do it because we decided >> that this is fun. >> Amazing. No clients, no venture guys telling us the truth of life. >> >> - To a friend to which I was saying that I'm not that smart, that guy >> told me that smart is not the only measure: you can measure your impact, >> the books you wrote, the energy that other people took and got inspired >> and all kind of other measures.... :) >> >> So I can tell you I was down but this is good because I could think about >> what I really want to do. >> And I want to have an innovative Smalltalk system that can be used to >> develop business and innovative. >> (for example I would like to see if the new event system can be used to save >> Genie - one of the coolest >> handwriting recognition system I see). >> So I will not be extra-smart but I will learn and I will do it bit by bit. >> And I want to make it fun and beautiful. >> May be we will be able to go faster (it depends mainly on you guys :)) but I >> want 10 years or 15 or even 20 >> years of fun with a cool system and it is there in my hand (at three >> keystrokes from my keuboard). >> We will build it. >> >> Stef (sorry for the one of you that have to listen my bad mood I'm curing >> myself). > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
