Marcus

I think that we improve Morphic a lot and we will continue.
I do not think that this is wise to bash the only graphical system we have 
except if you want to use a web based solution.
For me I still think that there is a good value in Morphic but that we should 
continue to improve it.
And of course this is not an easy task.

Stef

On Apr 6, 2013, at 7:10 PM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Apr 6, 2013, at 7:00 PM, "Thomas Worthington" <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Look at Morphic.
> 
> Morphic is a mess of epic proportion. The ideas are good (the basic ones), 
> but the implementation is beyond hope.
> 
>> That's about all you can do with it if you've got a full time job that's not 
>> Smalltalk related - 
> 
> Morphic is unmaintanable and unusable for everyone.
> 
>> 
>> The answer to Marcus' question "what should I not do to have time for that" 
>> is "anything".
> 
> Anything is a bit of a hard thing.. e.g. Morphic does not need to be 
> documented, it needs to be thrown away and 
> reimplemented. It's just  a pile of crap. 
> 
> 
>> I'm also not attempting to say that those who are very active with Pharo are 
>> bad programmers because documentation has become problematical - if they are 
>> then I'm a bad programmer too - I just want to point out that a system has 
>> even more need of documentation than a completed application and *if it's 
>> possible* (and I know that finance is an issue in the real world) then I 
>> think that updating the Pharo book(s) to a point where they describe the 
>> current Pharo 2.0 state is FAR more important than work on Pharo 3.0.
> 
> 
> We need both. Documentation is important, but just documenting a system that 
> nobody needs makes no sense, either.
> 
>       Marcus
> 
> 


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