Would it not be better to accept that the WWW is the platform anf the best
thing Squeak can do is become the uyltimate plug-inn, the ideal open webtool
all the others can collaborate with? 

-----Original Message-----
From: C. Gable Watts [mailto:Gable at Shaw.ca]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 3:29 AM
To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Subject: Re: I have a dream


>I have a dream.
>In my mind I would like to see many of the productivity type apps with a
high quality Squeak implementation.
>Email, web-browser, word-processors, spreadsheets, PIM, etc.
>At work I am on a WinME machine, at home LinuxBox, wife and children on
Macs.
>
>Squeak supercedes the OS. Squeak can provide for reasonably seemless
transition from one OS to another. As anyone who has used computers for any
length of time can attest, OSes come OSes go. However Squeak can remain
because it can ride on the wave.
>
>It would be nice if most of the truly important or critical apps were
Squeak based.
>Anyone else share this dream. :)

I think all of us that have been Smalltalkers for a long time share this
dream.  I've always stated it slightly differently.  I want to use a machine
where Smalltalk IS the operating system (as it was designed and as Squeak is
fully capable of being).  And, of course, to have that I'd need all my usual
apps built in Squeak.  Many other have had this dream and have implemented
huge parts of it in Squeak and in other Smalltalks.

There was even several Smalltalk-based computers.  Only one that I know of
(Momenta) made it into production but I know of people who worked on other
ones.


C. Gable Watts
Web:  http://members.shaw.ca/Gable