I see your point Gary but, weren't all these features envisaged by the
author/designer.
Good well thought out designs give more freedom to desire: spontaneity (to
be safely creative). Just the one unique concept, message passing, for
instance.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary McGovern" <gary.play at btopenworld.com>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [FYI] Java vs Squeak/Smalltalk


> 16/01/02 17:47:45, "Justin Walsh" <jwalsh at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> >Philosophically and Technically and, keeping concept IDE squarely in
mind,
> >St. is without a doubt, as close to perfect an IDE as it can possibly
get.
>
> I wouldn't agree with that. The direct manipulation / etoy / scripting can
be taken much further I'm
> sure it will at one point (bearing in mind the objective of a Dynabook).
And the method structure
> could be improved to show dependencies and sequences (my user experience
having not written
> the methods).
>
> Gary
> (Not wishing to be flamed as no offense is intended)
>
>