owner of squeak

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Thu Dec 20 05:49:24 UTC 2001


I wish we could get certain objects in Squeak to die ....

Cheers,

Alan

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At 4:16 PM -0800 12/19/01, Duane Maxwell wrote:
>  > over at ruby-talk I saw the following claim:
>>
>>  > I have noticed the "Pick-Axe" book, "Programming Ruby,"  while looking
>>  > for new Java and XML books, but I actually went looking for a Java
>>  > replacement when Sun Microsystems, sadly, made the Life Decisions
>>  > (http://www.fightpp.org/) boycott list as a supporter of Planned
>>  > Parenthood. (SmallTalk failed because it's expensive and the owner of
>>  > Squeak Smalltalk, Disney, is on the same boycott list. I avoid the
>>  > culture of death as much as possible, since I hope that God will bless
>>  > my work and fortunes.
>>
>>
>>  Please ignore philosophy, religion and politics, but tell me,
>>  who, right now, is the "owner of squeak"?
>
>It's quite a stretch to boycott Squeak because of Disney - they just
>happened to pay some guys who worked on it for a while after it became Open
>Source, and now they don't (well, I guess they still pay *one* guy).
>
>Again, independant of philosophy, religion, and politics, I think
>associating a "culture of death" to Squeak (without naming the reason),
>might be kinda cool to bring in the disaffected, angst-ridden "Dead Can
>Dance" crowd:
>
>Goth A: "Do you use Java?"
>Goth B: "No, I use Squeak - it's about death and the hopelessness of
>existance."
>Goth A: "Kewl"
>
>I mean, think about it - objects in Squeak almost exclusively die of
>neglect, and their carcasses are "collected" and consumed by the next
>generation (yeah, I know that's also true of Java...).  Anyone want to put
>crossbones on the logo?
>
>-- Duane


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