How to teach design (was Re: Squeak book !)

Richard A. O'Keefe squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Thu Sep 12 03:40:20 UTC 2002


Stephane Ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
	But who say that you should say that Squeak is good design. I always 
	say to the student that it is bad because I do not want to lose any 
	credibility.

I'm reminded of one of Piet Hein's grooks:

    Wisdom
      is the booby prize
    we get
      for having been unwise.

The kind of stuff you see in Smalltalk books like "Best Practice Design
Patterns" is what has been learned from experiences like (but not limited
to) the development of Squeak.




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