Computerchannel.de: Squeak 3.0 tested

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Wed Sep 26 21:33:19 UTC 2001


On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Michael Rueger wrote:

> Marcus Denker wrote:
>
> > Squeak was evaluated by some german computer-online-magazin, the article
> > is available (in german):
> >
> > http://www.computerchannel.de/softwaretest/tools/squeak30/squeak30_1.phtml
> >
> > Of course, they didn´t understand it. And the review is awful, but it
> > shows how "normal" users see squeak...
>
> Not understanding would be to kind to them. They didn't even look at the
> web site really, as they do not mention any of the kids' projects at
> all. And they mention that Alan Kay "allegedly" has left Disney to work
> on Squeak!!!

Of course you can blame him for not doing his work. But also, this points
at some shortcomings in Squeak's public presence. Perhaps he somewhere
heard that there is a new programming environment aimed at children named
Squeak. Then he downloaded Squeak from Squeak.org and was disappointed...

A cause of this confusion might be that there's no clear distinction
between "Squeak the Smalltalk Programming Environment" and "Squeak the
Children's Toy". In "classical" terms, one is the authoring tool, the
other an application. But the author of the article did not get this.

Someone should educate him ;-)

-- Bert





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