SqueakFoundation; get off your butts you lot!

PhiHo Hoang phiho.hoang at rogers.com
Sun Jan 20 02:40:36 UTC 2002


> > > >     Lucky those Ruby fans. I wish some one love Squeak so much to
write a
> > > > book for Squeak like the one Dave wrote for Ruby and gave away the
soft
> > copy
> > > > on the net.
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > Well, Mark Guzdial wrote and edited some books for Squeak and the
> > > anthology at least is available on the net. Testimony to a fair number
of
> > > people who love Squeak "so much".
> > >
> > > While I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, it does come of sounding
more
> > > than a little ungrateful. It certainly makes me a little tired and
> > > uninteresting in helping.
> >
> > Must be having a bad day- it didn't look that way to me!  Squeak needs
strong
> > advocates.  What's wrong with wanting them?  Sure, it's much better to
pitch
> > in and help in whatever way you can, but real life does intrude upon our
> > virtual existence from time to time.  I'll take whatever we can get, and
be
> > happy to contribute in whatever way I can.
> >
>
>
> What's wrong is saying we don't have any.

    Just to set the record straight, what part in the following quoted
message is 'saying we don't have any':

    'Lucky those Ruby fans. I wish some one love Squeak so much to write a
book for Squeak like the one Dave wrote for Ruby and gave away the soft copy
on the net.'

> The message seems pretty clear to me.

    Is it my English or your subconcious ;-)

> Lex Spoon

    Cheers,

    PhiHo.





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