Stefs roadmap for 3.9, time to get it nailed down

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at squeakland.org
Thu Feb 24 17:32:24 UTC 2005


  Hello,

> Regarding all this (and knowing Stef's French spirit ;-), even I (a
> "nice" and calm Swiss) can somehow understand that Stef freaks out when
> he reads that traits are a "research item" that only serves the purpose
> of satisfying the urges of some academics.
> 
> As a last point, I would like to say that I somtimes wish that people
> would be a bit more open-minded regarding their judgments of
> improvements to the Smalltalk language. I think it is very important to
> keep in mind that humans have a tendency to idealize what they are used
> to, simply because this is what they know.

  I agree with this (not only the first line, but the second
paragraph).

  I'd skip writing my feeling and reasoning, but I think Traits is
good, and should be in the main image.

  Just one vote,

-- Yoshiki






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