interesting comment about Squeak
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Tue Dec 14 09:24:54 UTC 2004
this is not me :)
But still sad. And of course not totally wrong or true :)
> This is from http://blogten.blogspot.com/
>
> | Once upon a time I also used to contribute to Squeak.
> |
> | To make the story short, I could not deal with the ever-growing
> mountain of crappy code anymore, and left. In the Squeak community,
> | it's too easy to get credit for half-baking shitty code. Or, when
> you don't feel like writing crap of your own, plain stealing someone
> else's
> | code and stomping your initials in.
> |
> | There is no reward for cleanup. Squeak is, as far as I am concerned,
> a few good ideas on top of a horrible implementation. If anybody
> | wants to do serious stuff, please resist the temptation and do not
> use Squeak.
> |
> | It is very sad to come to say this, but you also have to consider
> whether Squeak's soil is the proper place for your esthetically
> pleasing
> | intellectual seeds. It is not a good place for anything. Whatever is
> left that is good in Squeak should be immediately rewritten in VW,
> | Dolphin, or some other decent Smalltalk that is not controlled by
> ruthlessly brute and insensitive people.
> |
> | Examine the Squeak mailing list over a long period of time and do
> not miss the pattern. What do the people that stay in the
> | community do? And what do the people that leave the community do?
> |
> | For the foreseeable future, stay away from Squeak.
> |
>
>
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