Thanks. :)  I will go out and look at Sophie.  I don't recall hearing about 
it yet.

And I certainly plan on writing some code once I figure out what is needed.  
Network
Management has traditionally been my space so I had planned on making an 
SNMP
client library if one doesn't exist already.  I see telnet already had some 
packages.

>From: Michael Rueger <m.rueger at acm.org>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: Thoughts from an outsider
>Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:29:43 +0200
>
>J J wrote:
>
>>Java is surely "inconsistancy all the way down".
>
>ROFL
>
>>I'm sure the Howard Aiken quote is familiar to all smalltalkers: "Don't 
>>worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll 
>>have to ram them down people's throats."
>
>Yup, and we Smalltalkers usually are way to polite to do this ;-)
>
>>What smalltalk also needs is a killer app.  Maybe seaside will be that 
>>killer app if the inferier language crowd doesn't steal it first.
>
>Seaside is certainly the killer app in the website application area 
>demonstrating a viable alternative to scripting.
>
>Another one could be Sophie (OK, I'm one of the developers ;-) ).
>
>>I hope someone somewhere finds something I said useful. :)
>
>Thank you, thank you, thank you :-)
>
>Michael
>
>