Hi Eliot,

some thoughts for you...

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

-- Winston Churchill

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

-- again Winston Churchill

> Can we please get back to writing code, collaborating and making progress with Pharo and Squeak

Sure you can, you are everyone's darling.

So 4 years of trying my damnedest to do exactly as you recommend has simply helped my understanding of Jesus' words. We all know the first part of the sentence, however the second has suddenly gained a new ring of truth.

Matthew 7:6 “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces."

When you say, ah but that is life in software, its not an idea world, get over it, live with it, the end justifies the means, you side with the pigs.

To the board:

~ Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. - Satre

regards

victim number 2

Keith