Tony,

	Was this addressed to me for a reason?

	===Blake===

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 04:27:15 -0800, Tony Clarke <aclarke11 at yahoo.co.uk>  
wrote:

> HI
>  I am what might be called a hobbyist programmer, no training but I get  
> along. I was interested that some of you think that  a beginner can  
> learn from the environment, without a textbook: that gives me confidence  
> to go ahead.
>  I was using Python for a sailing simulator, but was stuck with the  
> graphics which I found clunky and not well documented for what I wanted.  
> Within a few weeks of discovering Squeak, I had a working graphic model  
> ready, almost without writing any code,
>  and not reading any books!
>  Thanks for all the work you guys are putting in, the language is near  
> enough the best approximation to the re-usable, click-in component which  
> OO has always pursued.
>  Tony Clarke
>
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