At 1:42 PM -0500 1/27/00, Michael Chean wrote:

>My experience also parallels Jerome's.  Because of my inexperience I am not
>a very strong advocate for Smalltalk, but just the task of convincing my
>engineer friends to look outside their comfort zone has proven impossible.
>My friend at JPL considers Smalltalk as having missed the boat, which seems
>to be the case.  When I mentioned that I was following this list he
>suggested I look at Tcl/Tk instead.

This is an engineer *friend*! Ouch :)

(See a thread on comp.lang.smalltalk about this strange "missing the boat"
argument. As if Tcl/Tk has *caught* a boat? Which boat?

I know we need gross sorting principles to avoid information overload, but
that's ridiculous!)

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.