Thank you, John.

I always appreciate your reports.

The "womens' bellybuttons" were a paridigm shift on several levels.  <g>

What struck me most from the report was encapsulated in the remarks about
Sutherland's "[not knowing] it was hard" to have come up with all he did,
and the comment that the PARC folks ". . . thought IBM was so much brighter"
while far surpassing them.

The "nuclear control panel" also resonated with me; I have not yet developed
sufficient fluency with Squeak to pack away my pencils and pads of paper,
but I realized as I read the comment that I now reach for Squeak first, then
to the pencils if I must.  To do creative work in Windows is a nightmare,
like cooking with a blowtorch and a shovel.

Anyway, thanks again for posting these reports, and for your other fine work
on behalf of the Smalltalk community.

Gary


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John M McIntosh" <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 3:45 PM
Subject: Alan's ACM talk at OOPLSA 2004


As usual I've taken some notes about Smalltalk at OOPLSA and have
posted coverage of
Alan's talk at
http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/CampSmalltalk/OOPSLA+2004+Trip+report

Please take a peek and because it's a wiki make any corrections or
provide more material.

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