On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Lawson English <lenglish5@cox.net> wrote:

That sounds really great.

However, there are some broken bits in Squeak that will make learning Smalltalk difficult.

Most simple and important example I have right now is the well-known issue that the VM will freeze indefinitely if you input a long running calculation, e.g. x := 100000 factorial. The interrupt key doesn't work, usually.  Newbies like me, like to experiment, and if the VM freezes with every typo, then its hardly worth using.

This is interesting because it does *not* freeze in my Qwaq-derived work image.  Here the interrupt key works perfectly with no delay.  I'll see if I can investigate.  Andreas, do you recall doing anything to the debugger to fix issues like this in the Qwaq system?