Cees de Groot wrote:
>The only thing that's not neat about E is that it sits on top of Java and has a
>shitty development environment, so it's time to rob their ideas and transport
>them to Squeak ;-).

I just wanted to endorse this thought, and to make it clear that the E 
community, myself included, would be very eager to see progress in this 
direction, and can probably help.  We're primarily interested in seeing the 
ideas succeed, rather than E per se.  On the erights site, we regularly 
endorse "competitors" that seem to be getting things right.  So please "rob" 
away!

After seeing Lex Spoon's ( http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2074 & 
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~lex/7431/term.ps ) and Rob Wither's ( 
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2410 ) efforts in this regard, I extended 
the E history page ( http://www.erights.org/history/overview.html ) with my 
hope for these efforts.  If it doesn't offend anyone, I've given this pair 
of efforts the unauthorized name "Squeak-E".

On the e-lang list ( http://www.eros-os.org/mailman/listinfo/e-lang ) Rob 
Withers has been discussing with us where to go from here.  Those of you 
interested in joining the discussion are most welcome.


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