Hi Stefan,

I think that you are right. But imagine what would be any Smalltalk where 
a company would
throw away the amount of money that is currently been put in Eclipse. If 
they would not have something
this would be really a problem. But wait soon Eclipse will just look pale 
compared to .Net environment.
(the fun aspect of it is that people will just have another chance to get 
radical against .Net so for Sun).

Now I often think about pyramids. You take hordes of slaves, kill a lot of 
them and repeat
you get your pyramids. Now this is a bit the same with programming 
languages even with smart slaves.
I'm always fascinated that 5 guys working in a distributed setting with 
crazy deadlines and apparently complete lack of understanding from disney 
and strange goals (imagine kid programming) could make Squeak (with all 
the parts we hate all).

So I dream about a Smalltalk where a lot of money would be put in....


I can tell you that in our spare time (mainly the night roel and I are 
building a browser that would for example avoid all the popping of windows)
  with a simple (trivial) type inferencer we could have easy method 
completion. And a real powerful environment. It works now on VW7 and we 
are waiting for the cleaning Andreas is doing in the dark of morphic to 
port it.

Another Stef but with ph :)

Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch) 
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
  "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do
  different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today
  might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes