[Newbies] Just a thanks for the work so far

[Ron Teitelbaum]

Hi Jeremy,

Very nice email.  Thank you for taking the time to write it!  It is a
wonderful community!

All the best,

Ron Teitelbaum

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 1:50 PM Jeremy Landry <hakyoku at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just gave the latest beta 5.2 a look last night and I'm rather psyched
> about work that's been done. I personally am not a 'coder', I don't like
> 'writing' code, etc. and so I've been mostly using the Etoys distribution
> as it allows me to get straight into the visual and motion design work that
> I'm actually interested in. I had heard that Etoys was going to be merged
> back into squeak, making the eye halo actually feel logical to even be
> included again and when I tried version 5.0 a while back, it was still
> largely under construction/on the to-do list. However last night, other
> than the Etoys scriptor needing to be in text rather than tile, I was very
> very happy and impressed at the same time and I just wanted to thank
> everyone who's work and contributions towards this goal has gotten it to
> this point now. Even if for some extremely unlikely reason that Squeak dev
> completely stopped tomorrow morning, what is there is already nice.
>
> Really, everyone has outdone themselves on squeak 5.x and this is just me
> saying thanks and letting you know at least one person out in the
> wilderness appreciates it.
>
> I apologize for cluttering up the mailing list with kudos and congrats,
> but I was really yelling at my screen last night saying the explicit
> versions of 'hooray' and thought afterwards, 'I should write a polite and
> publicly acceptable version of how I feel and pass that to those
> responsible' so here I am.
>
> Again, thanks and stellar work.
>
> Peace
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