Magic The Gathering... guess we'll be losing you for some time ;-) (it is rather compelling).
Regards, Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stéphane Ducasse" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 7:38 PM Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] About my recursive blues :) >> 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 _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
