[squeak-dev] Re: [Squeak-dev Images] About the different flavors

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Fri Jul 4 12:08:26 UTC 2008


Stéphane Rollandin wrote:
> the sentence I (over-?)reacted to was the following:
>
>  "As a professional programmer used to other tools like Eclipse, 
> Visual Studio, Dolphin, Visual Age - the bar is quite high and Squeak 
> struggles to attract new blood in its default incarnation."
>
> see the bits in it:
> "professional programmer" ... so what ? any better than me ?
>

Indeed not. Someone who sees Squeak could think "Hey, how different! 
This might allow me to do software that looks the way I want, instead of 
the way the OS wants!". But someone who instead thinks "Hey, how 
different! I will complain and not try to understand!" is in no way 
better than you.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich (a professional programmer, but a good one)



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