Raymond Tiefenthal wrote:
> 
> I am a lurker since 98, when I found Squeak. I have an itch to say
> something, because I  came across Haskell, a functional prog. language and I
> like it much better than Smalltalk, though Smalltalk is still better than
> all mainstream languages, in my opinion. What bothers me, is the absence of
> a nice graphical envrionment where the user, the programmer and all the code
> live in. I like the idea of a living system, with living objects, where you
> can change everything on the fly, while it's running.

Interesting thought.  I wonder, how does one resolve the tension
between "a living system ... where you can change everything on the
fly," and a functional language which inherently restricts the
mutation of objects?

-Jesse