I *****agree******!

You should invent the next generation Smalltalk with:
	- good packages
	- security
	- minimal core
	- well design Meta object protocol (I have some ideas there)
	- lean and clean code

Stef

On 3 juil. 07, at 04:26, Craig Latta wrote:

>      Now, as for the bedtime story: while I enjoyed it immensely, I
> think it does point out a not-so-subtle problem that our community  
> has.
> Some reverence for those who have come before you is good, but I think
> we take it a little too far. Yes, Dan and the rest of the original
> Squeak team are very talented, but we should also realize that they  
> had
> financial support for their efforts. We are simply not working with  
> the
> external resources that they had.
>
>      I think we are too quick to frame technical decisions with the
> question "What would they have done?" We need to think for  
> ourselves; no
> one has all the answers. The Squeak team has achieved a wonderful  
> thing,
> and has made an amazing gift of it to us, but we should not be
> distracted from our own powers.