I wrote: : Non-validating parsers are easy to write. But if anyone were : to try to process DocBook using Squeak (hey, guess what I'm : trying to learn?) such a parser would be as much use as an : Apple ][ simulator (maybe less, come to think of it).

"Duane Maxwell" dmaxwell@san.rr.com replied: Hey! I resent that! An Apple ][ emulator is *supremely* useless. It's useless in the way that operas and novels are useless. It's a work of craft which simultaneously pays homage to the past and revels in the accomplishments of the present.

In fact, I challenge anyone to come up with something else in Squeak less useful. 12-bit hash codes? Or has that been fixed?