Cees de Groot wrote:
The only thing that's not neat about E is that it sits on top of Java and has a shitty development environment, so it's time to rob their ideas and transport them to Squeak ;-).
I just wanted to endorse this thought, and to make it clear that the E community, myself included, would be very eager to see progress in this direction, and can probably help. We're primarily interested in seeing the ideas succeed, rather than E per se. On the erights site, we regularly endorse "competitors" that seem to be getting things right. So please "rob" away!
After seeing Lex Spoon's ( http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2074 & http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~lex/7431/term.ps ) and Rob Wither's ( http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2410 ) efforts in this regard, I extended the E history page ( http://www.erights.org/history/overview.html ) with my hope for these efforts. If it doesn't offend anyone, I've given this pair of efforts the unauthorized name "Squeak-E".
On the e-lang list ( http://www.eros-os.org/mailman/listinfo/e-lang ) Rob Withers has been discussing with us where to go from here. Those of you interested in joining the discussion are most welcome.
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Cheers, --MarkM