From: "Cees de Groot" cdegroot@gmail.com Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers listsqueak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: Re: election details *PLEASE READ* Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:47:19 +0100
On 2/21/07, Andreas Raab andreas.raab@gmx.de wrote:
Should we actively pursue changes?
[I take it you won't mind getting answers from other candidates :-)]
Yes.
The biggest weakness in Smalltalk/Squeak atm is that it doesn't scale well. At the very least, something in the area of namespacing is needed - this is one thing that Java got right. And personally, I think Goran's approach should be adopted ASAP because it is minimal while getting a long way into the direction of solving the problem at hand.
I don't agree that Java got it right. Java just stuck something in there. We can do, and I believe have done, better. That is, I think there are better implementations of a namespace type system out there to be adopted.
From the mainstream world, python is pretty good as is Haskell.
IMO a simple "stick colons in it" doesn't do anything but add two characters per class and make the code uglier. We can do better.
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