Oh yuck!!!

The web is good (could be better) for what the web is.
But the web is not, nor do I conceive it ever being my personal
computing platform.

I do not want to access the web in order to use a word processor,
database, spreadsheet, calendar, to make personal notes, to play games
(non-web-based), to listen to music, to do the many, many things that
are not collaborative in nature.

Squeak could not be the ultimate plugin addressing the issues I
mentioned without there having been written for Squeak a word processor,
spreadsheet, database, calendar, etc. Squeak could not provide those
services if they do not exist. If they do exist in Squeak, then I don't
need the web to use them.

I am all for the web and the many wonderful things it can and will
provide. But for me this isn't one of them.

Jimmie Houchin

G.J.Tielemans at dinkel.utwente.nl wrote:
> 
> 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