Documentation (my last word for a while)

agree at carltonfields.com agree at carltonfields.com
Wed Jun 9 14:03:28 UTC 1999


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIME :eluwish at uswest.com > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 7:25 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: Documentation (my last word for a while)
> > > I do not want this to become something like the discussion of > "a message is just a subroutine".
> Not only is Smalltalk different from everything else, but the > different way one needs to think is the essence of its > expressiveness.  Delving through the corpus of code not only > suggests how to solve a given problem, it suggests new > problems to solve.
> > The question is how do we best communicate this, so that our > community grows larger and more influential in the world at > large.  We have a terrific opportunity, since this project is > not only at the forefront of object technology, but also of > open source.
> > There are experts out there who have some answers.  They have > documented why some practices may be better than others, and > have discovered some effective educational methods.  I will > step back while they offer some suggestions, and as a > community we should expand on them, debate them, and come up > with a plan for a documentation project.  I will help in any > way I can.

I embrace these remarks completely.





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