Pressures for Substantially New Squeaks
Stefan Matthias Aust
sma at kiel.netsurf.de
Sat Feb 13 17:03:42 UTC 1999
>The term toy, whether Stefan intended it to be negative or not,
>simply isn't accurate or appropriate.
Could you please suggest a better name which puts the emphazise the
following scenario: According to my definition, a model railway is a toy.
People create large installations for their own enjoyment, exploring the
world of trains and rails. Now model railways are seldom used as a device
to solve some special problems. They're used as something to which you add
some rules to create your own private game. On the other hand, a hammer is
typically a tool. You can use it as a toy (again by combining the toy with
rules to create a game) but most often, people use a hammer in a greater
task of construction (perhaps to nail tracks of rails on a board).
If I use Squeak to explore the difficulties of adding multiple inheritance,
Squeak is a toy and I'm playing a game born out of my curiosity. Of
course, if now my task is to create a system with multiple inheritance,
Squeak can be also a tool to solve that task, but IMHO this is more an
exception than the rule.
So what's a better name for "toy?" A laboratory?
bye
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Stefan Matthias Aust // Don't talk. Just doIt.
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