<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 10, 2007 11:02 AM, Herbert König <<a href="mailto:herbertkoenig@gmx.net">herbertkoenig@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello Bert,<br><br>BF> Does anybody here still subscribe to the idea that Smalltalk should<br>BF> be a system in particular for non-experts? That certainly was its<br>BF> original motivation. It also has largely failed in that regard,
<br>BF> though not necessarily so on technical reasons.<br><br>Yes I do, actually that's what's attracted me to Squeak. <br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm an<br>engineer and I need a software toolbox. </blockquote><div><br>+1<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Think Matlab.
</blockquote><div><br>or OLPC/eToys<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br>Squeak is brought ahead right now by Software people so it goes into
<br>their direction, not towards non expert users. (Which is ok, as they<br>do the work.) But in the end a small modularized kernel will help non<br>expert users too. If it has easy access to the wealth of existing code<br>
which was in older images it will even be attractive for them.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Herbert mailto:<a href="mailto:herbertkoenig@gmx.net">herbertkoenig@gmx.net</a><br><br><br></blockquote></div>
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