Smalltalk & Squeak featured on Slashdot

Simon Michael simon at joyful.com
Thu Apr 19 00:46:46 UTC 2001


Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> writes:
> Michael Rueger <m.rueger at acm.org> is widely believed to have written:
> 
> > Oh boy, Tim you where so wrong about the average IQ of the people
> > posting there...
> > You just can't stop being optimistic, can't you?
> Sheesh. Even with Andy Greenberg chiming in he couldn't get it up to a
> tolerable level, no matter how heroically he fought.
> 
> Ridiculous, don't you think? Slashdot has become the 'National Enquirer'
> of the web world.

I respectfully disagree. The key is to skim it at level 3, 4 or 5.
I'm a long-time slashdotter and still learn a lot there.





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