I agree, avoiding XML and sticking with Smalltalk is a big plus.

Travis.

Michael Lucas-Smith wrote:
> Craig Latta wrote:
>>
>> > Of course the other direction (XML to your 2c's) is a bit more
>> > complicated but doesn't look undoable.
>>
>>      That's what I'm afraid of, that we'll introduce XML into the mix 
>> and won't be able to un-do it. :)
>>
> Let's put it this way - if we use Smalltalk instead of XML, then we 
> can program stuff and extend it easily. If we use XML, then we end up 
> with something like Ant.. when we could have just used Smalltalk. 
> Using Smalltalk fulfills two requirements - a file out format that 
> describes declarative code structures - and a disk format for writing 
> smalltalk programs that doesn't involve weird !'s or xml tags/namespaces.
>
> Just another 2c.. almost up to 5c now.
>
> Michael
>