Squeak Foundation suggestion

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Sun Apr 15 04:35:56 UTC 2001


Joshua Channing Gargus <schwa at cc.gatech.edu> is widely believed to have written:

> I believe that Squeakland is targeted at a different user group than we
> are talking about for the Squeak Foundation.  Squeakland is for end users, 
> who might not have any programming experience and who would be using Squeak 
> as a personal media tool.  The documentation to be provided by the Squeak
> Foundation is for developers who want to use Squeak as an industrial-strength
> development platform like (dare I say it?) Java.
And hopefully anyone that wants to learn about OOP even for non-business
purposes. My simplistic view is Squeakland is for users _of the
applications_ and SqF is for users of _squeak as a programming system_.
And yes, I understand there is a great deal of overlap in all dimensions
here.

tim

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