On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 07:53:12 +0930 "Peter Smet" <peter.smet at flinders.edu.au> wrote: 
>The difference is that a liver cell doesn't assume the existence of aStream
>cell when it screams "self printOn: aStream". It only knows harry, jack, and
>gladys, the three liver cells that live next door. Don't get me wrong, I
>think OO is the best we have for dealing with complexity in computer
>problems at the moment - I was just musing on how it could be extended to be
>composed of objects orders of magnitude simpler than what we have now.

Hi Peter,

The (unfair) advantage that the liver cell has is several billion years of evolution. Perhaps we could devise a way of accelerating (so we don't have to wait that long) the evolution of squeak.

Cheers,
Bob