I don't know if this question has been posed before - I didn't have the
time to search the archives for this, since I'm at a cyber cafe.

When I first read about Squeak, I was mildly put off, since I thought it
was an environment for kids. Now that I'm more farmiliar with it, it seems
pretty robust - certainly enough so to serve as an environment for
developing hardcore applications.

So, I was wondering, why is Squeak being marketed (inasmuch as one can use
the verb "to market" for an open source project) almost only as an
educational tool?

Another question - is anyone still working on building a JIT component?
I'm quite keen to do so, but I lack the experience and so I'll first have
to do a lot of reading before I can start. Realistically it'll take me
more than a year.

--Wynand