Newbie questions

John Hinsley johnhinsley at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Apr 12 01:40:31 UTC 2002


On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, jennyw wrote:

> 
> The book I'm reading says that Squeak is currently developed by a team led 
> by Alan Kay at Disney. The Web page also says this.  However, I've also 
> read that Alan Kay left Disney a while ago.  Also, the page "Where is 
> Squeak Headed" on the squeak.org Web site only has information from late 
> 1999.  How active is this project?  I assume it's pretty active since a 
> lot of people are posting on this list, but I thought I'd ask.

It's probably too active for them to keep that page up to date. Most of the
Squeak Central people left Sisney about 6 months ago: I think (judging by his
email address) that John (Morphic) Maloney still works there.

> Also, what do people use Sqeak for?  Is it mostly an educational tool, or 
> do people use it for commercial or free software?  What kinds of projects  
> are currently going on in Squeak? > 

All of the above: Squeak Central is mainly into edicational projects, lots of
people on this list were involved with commercial stuff for real companies
before the dor com crash (and many still are, quietly), others use it for free
software and simply as a way of running Squeal applications.

Cheers

John
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