I followed the links from slashdot back to GaTech and one would find it easy to conclude that the source of these comments is an unhappy camper in general.

Cheers,
Bob

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 08:55:51 -0700 Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
>On Wednesday 18 April 2001 07:21, Wouter Gazendam wrote:
>> Might be an interesting advocacy:
>> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/18/001236&mode=thread
>>
>> Wouter
>
>There's an interesting response from a Georgia Tech student (one of Mark 
>G's?):
>
>http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01/04/18/001236&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=52#60
>
>The overall tone is summed up by:
>
>"Squeak has been the worst programming language I've ever had to deal with 
>(out of the seven or eight I've learned).
>The Squeak IDE is one of the most frustrating pieces of software I've ever 
>had to use."
>
>But (s)he goes on to describe why.