Ah come on, the code is powerful but not that approachable. Dan Ingalls even recognized that his text-flowing-through-a-tube was just to prove it was doable, not that it was maintainable or anything.
Cuis does less but is nicer to learn. Pharo is opinionated but a benevolent dictatorship is (for me) better than anarchy that runs in circles. And without new learners, guess what? You die. A slow death but a death. I don't want to touch Squeak with pole anymore now that Pharo and Cuis are around. That's my biased opinion and I stand by it, especially by 2012 standards. Phil 2012/4/22 Chris Muller <[email protected]> > Did your "Smalltalk Code Critic" tell you that or just another one of > your biased opinions? Squeak is a fantastic media authoring > environment -- even old versions from years past embarass programs > like, say, PowerPoint. It's text-handling is fantastic -- remember > the release image delivered with text on the desktop flowing out one > text box, following along a loop-de-loop spline and into another text > box? What other programs that can do that today in 2012..? > > In the spirit of Squeak, the original developers delivered a lot of > power with little code. But yes, it's a complex domain and so > reviewing the code in one afternoon may not meet your "aesthetic eye." > > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Apr 21, 2012, at 9:17 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > >> Great news! > >> > >> I am currently busy looking after Text, TextAttributes, TextConstants, > Paragraph... and god, it went through the grinder and it shows. > >> > > > > Isn't it amazing how bad the Squeak code is for text and everything > media considering that the goal was to be the media environment for the > future? > > > > Marcus > > > > > > -- > > Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de > > > > > > -- Philippe Back "Helping you hit the top 3 outcomes you really want to achieve" Mob: +32(0) 478 650 140 | Fax: +32 (0) 70 408 027 Mail: [email protected]| Web: http://philippeback.eu | Blog: http://philippeback.be High Octane SPRL rue cour Boisacq 101 1301 Bierges
