There is a lot of potential here. I am looking forward to seeing the work
from SqC that Alan mentioned.

The developement of ObjectWeb points out the potential for Squeak. We had 6
developers (students) working 40 hours a week for 4 weeks, 2 developers
that joined the course for one week. Of the 6 core developers, only 2 had
any experience with Smalltalk and none had used Squeak. Of the other 2 one
knew Squeak and the other was learning it. Given that this was a course on
XP, not all of the time was spent in development activities.  One  student
estimated it would take us over a year to develop ObjectWeb in Java.

A team of developers using Squeak and XP would have a big competitive
advantage over the software companies I know in San Diego.

With the Squeak World tour promising to refactor parts of Squeak, I am torn
between forming a small company and coverting all my courses to using
Squeak.
>
>I really recomend people to try this out. The potensial is enourmous.
>ObjectWeb and
>a Squeak web browser plugin will change the way one thinks of internet.
>
>go squeak !
>
>Karl
>



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