Squeak for the masses? [was: primitiveApplyToFromTo]

J J azreal1977 at hotmail.com
Mon Sep 18 19:27:39 UTC 2006




>From: "Ralph Johnson" <johnson at cs.uiuc.edu>
>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: Squeak for the masses? [was: primitiveApplyToFromTo]
>Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:42:39 -0500
>
>Smalltalk in general, and Squeak in particular, is no better at very
>large applications than other languages.  Its lack of modularity can
>make it worse.  Where it shines is when it allows a system that would
>otherwise need 50 people to be built with a small number.
>
>There have been a number of Smalltalk projects with dozens, sometimes
>hundreds, of people on them.  None have been successful.  On large
>projects, politics and management issues overwhelm technical decisions
>and the value of Smalltalk gets lost.  If you can keep the group of
>developers small then the technical advantages of Smalltalk can
>dominate.
>

Why is this?  Is there something that could be identified and fixed to make 
it
more usable by larger groups?  It has monticello for group work.  What does 
it need? I
can't believe this is not a fixable problem.





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