[squeak-dev] Smalltalk images considered harmful

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Thu May 22 00:55:06 UTC 2008


2008/5/22 Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn at stonehenge.com>:
>>>>>> "Jecel" == Jecel Assumpcao <jecel at merlintec.com> writes:
>
> Jecel> Our sources are the .image files. It isn't what people are used to, but
> Jecel> that doesn't make it less true.
>
> I would also presume that by this rule, PDFs aren't allowed anywhere in the
> distro either.  After all, they're not "human readable", but with the right
> tools, they're perfectly clear.  It just happens that the tool to read a
> .image is in fact the image itself, running on a suitable VM. :)
>

Yeah, clearly, any digital media is not human readable without proper tools.
So, i fail to see the point in their reasoning.

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