I was hoping that Squeak would be as practicable as Hypercard. I never
understood why HyperCard wnet under, there were zillions of user-scripts
(stacks) floating around. I just wish the stacks feature of Squeak would
become as useable, but it will doubtless be left to lie in there
half-finished in this gigantic museum of interface archeology that Squeak
is turning into. 

As for documentation - pshaww! I have written some working code (an
optimizer) with no difficulty after reading the Objectland book and
looking at the purple book. But I still cannot figure out how to do things
with Morphic , because I don't understand the system architecture. I guess
in a few weeks of browsing I will have figured it out.

BTW, is there a debug flag somewhere which makes menus jump back into
place and windows redraw slowly ? I have trouble with a nihongo squeak
image that Abe-san donated and which is behaving strangely in my unexpert
hands.


Am I alone in having a bad day ?


Edmund

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Dale Pond wrote:

> Bijan Parsia wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Diego Gomez Deck wrote:
> >
> > > >P.S.: I like squeak. But some on this list have the "linuxguru syndrome".
> > >
> > > Yes... I feel the same. :(
> >
> > Linux guru syndrome? "Volunteering tons of one's times, energy, and
> > expertise to help people who irritate you by whining about how you don't
> > meet *their* needs completely?"
> >
> > Only half-smiley.
> 
> Actually, speaking as a newbie to Squeak, what is being called for is a
> self-help book along the lines of Danny Goodman's "HyperCard Bible" that
> illustrates not only the NAME of the commands and functions but WHAT they do and
> HOW TO DO IT reinforced with actual working scripting examples. It is my feeling
> HyperCard became widely used because of Goodman's book - from which he probably
> is still making money. Teaching does not have to be done at a financial, work or
> time loss - teaching (not hand holding) can make money for those adept at
> fulfilling a need where one is so obvious as it is with Squeak and similar
> programs.
> 
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