this is not me :)

But still sad. And of course not totally wrong or true :)


> This is from  http://blogten.blogspot.com/
>
> | Once upon a time I also used to contribute to Squeak.
> |
> | To make the story short, I could not deal with the ever-growing 
> mountain of crappy code anymore, and left. In the Squeak community,
> | it's too easy to get credit for half-baking shitty code. Or, when 
> you don't feel like writing crap of your own, plain stealing someone 
> else's
> | code and stomping your initials in.
> |
> | There is no reward for cleanup. Squeak is, as far as I am concerned, 
> a few good ideas on top of a horrible implementation. If anybody
> |  wants to do serious stuff, please resist the temptation and do not 
> use Squeak.
> |
> | It is very sad to come to say this, but you also have to consider 
> whether Squeak's soil is the proper place for your esthetically 
> pleasing
> | intellectual seeds. It is not a good place for anything. Whatever is 
> left that is good in Squeak should be immediately rewritten in VW,
> | Dolphin, or some other decent Smalltalk that is not controlled by 
> ruthlessly brute and insensitive people.
> |
> | Examine the Squeak mailing list over a long period of time and do 
> not miss the pattern. What do the people that stay in the
> | community do? And what do the people that leave the community do?
> |
> | For the foreseeable future, stay away from Squeak.
> |
>
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