Computerchannel.de: Squeak 3.0 tested

Michael Rueger m.rueger at acm.org
Wed Sep 26 23:09:23 UTC 2001


Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> 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...

Well, then he seems even to be unable to read:
If you are a student, parent, or teacher, please jump over to
SqueakLand.org, and download some great educational projects.


> 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.

Yeah, it's like writing an article about the moral standards in the
White House by visiting whitehouse.com.

I just can't stand ignorant people who are able to publish their
ignorance.

And of course some of his points are valid, only that most of them are
completely besides the point in the intended context of his article.

OK, now back to saving the world...

Michael

P.S. People who think they know everything are really annoying to those
who do ;-)


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