What we want with Squeak?

Jay Carlson nop at nop.com
Tue May 6 17:10:06 UTC 2003


"Daniel Vainsencher" <danielv at netvision.net.il> writes:

> * If you tolerate this (cruft) then your children will be next

> Even now, the image, from a software engineering perspective, is a mess.
> Object (The Base Object) indirectly depends on well over half the
> classes in the system. This is why it is hard to make images for
> specific purposes - because everything depends on everything else.,
> because there are not module limits.

In a system that encourages code browsing as a documentation and exploration
strategy, this is particularly painful.

Object and Morph are important classes.  I wish it was easier for me to read
them and understand them.

Jay



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