On 5/6/16, Kirk Fraser <overcomer.man at gmail.com> wrote:
> Byte magazine which published the balloon concept for Smalltalk rising
> above the ivory tower of a lighthouse guiding the way in a sea of computer
> languages is out of business. I think it is time for the Squeak balloon to
> be grounded to connect with the reality of why computer languages exist -
> to make things easy for application developers.  So I propose all Squeak
> developers stop "improving" Squeak for one year and spend the time writing
> useful applications in Squeak.  That could lead to a basket of new ideas
> for next year.  Maybe make this a regularly scheduled event - a half year
> for applications and a half year for Squeak?
>
> The reason motivating this suggestion is on the advice of a Squeak-Dev
> member, I downloaded the latest all in one and to my chagrin, I found an
> improvement that made Squeak as worthless as a balloon full of machine gun
> holes.    The Workspace window gets halos with a right mouse click on a
> standard 2 button laptop mouse.  So I'll return to an older Squeak for
now.
>

Hi,

In which version of Squeak does this happen?  4.6 or 5.0?

--Hannes

Not just any 5.0 but 15113, the most recent download available on 5/5/16.

In college I read teachers discovered innovation for the sake of innovation
was worthless.  It is time Squeak-Dev learned that and only make useful
improvements.  I can't remember the Halo ever once being useful.  Take a
class in SolidWorks and do that in Squeak instead of Morphic an other not
useful improvements. A fast VM is useful, but sometimes working
applications are more useful than a library of stubs.
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