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Hi Chris,<br>
I'm sorry to say that your advice didn't work. Worse: The Squeak
community has lost a valuable contributor, a prime mover in the
patterns and agile communities and the author of several books on
OO. My friend wrote:<br>
" <i>I still can’t find a version of Squeak for my Mac that will
run Trygve’s current BabyIDE. At this point, even if one appears,
it is obvious that my dependence on “the introvert Squeak
community” will put me in a much more fragile position than with
any of my other concept proofs. It will be extremely difficult to
build a future on such fragile foundations.</i>"<br>
<br>
I came to Xerox PARC and Smalltalk in 1978 where I made my
contributions to Smalltalk-80. Since then, I have been working
almost exclusively with Smalltalk. My company invested in a VW class
library of more than 100,000 lines of Smalltalk code and used it in
our consulting. A strong selling point was that our tenders were
accompanied by a demo version of the program we offered to deliver.
Our library and applications were repeatedly threatened by new
versions of VW. The code is now dead; there is no VM that will run
our old images. The investment is lost.<br>
<br>
I hoped Squeak would be better. It isn't. Squeak is less stable than
VW ever was. My new programming paradigm, DCI, is supported by
BabyIDE that runs under Squeak 3.10. I have ported BabyIDE to 4.5,
but there are new bugs caused by differences between 3.10 and 4.5.
The result is that I have reverted to 3.10 because it's too much
hassle to run after the stream of Squeak releases. I thought Pharo
would be better, but their mailing list conversations indicate that
they do not understand that developers need a stable foundation for
their work.<br>
<br>
The result is that I too leave Smalltalk and concentrate on other
environments. A pity, because I still believe Smalltalk has the
potential to become a superior environment for non-professional
programmers. I am particularly thinking of children and experts such
as computational chemists who use computers in their work.<br>
<br>
It's very painful, but I am now terminating development work in
Squeak leave the Squeak and Pharo mailing lists. I will continue my
work in some mainstream language. I have just done some work in
Java with Netbeans and I am buying a book on JavaScript. It's heavy
going, but better that working for the dustbin.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
--Trygve<br>
<br>
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On 31.05.2015 16:52, Trygve Reenskaug wrote:<br>
Hi,<br>
A friend of mine is doing some experiments using a Mac and my
program Baby IDE. BabyIDE is works under Squeak 3.10.2. Is there a
binary virtual machine for a current Mac that he can use?<br>
<br>
On 31.05.2015 17:00, Chris Cunnington wrote:<br>
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