[squeak-dev] Pharo:: Re: Cuis update

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Thu Apr 16 10:26:37 UTC 2009


Bèrto ëd Sèra wrote:
> Hi
>
>
>     The code and comments apart from their own beauty having zero value,
>     if it can't properly interact with users/outside world.
>
>
> Yes. This thing is *extremely* annoying. You can cut and paste any 
> string to anything, but you cannot do it in squeak. There's no point 
> in making complicated things when you cannot do what even the 
> stupidest text editor does. Most of the planet does NOT speak English. 
> Most of the planet needs string content that is not in Latin chars. So 
> most of the planet has no use for squeak.
>
> I love Smalltalk, but this is a fact and it's going to put off people 
> until it gets solved.
>
> Berto

What I'm going to say is not only for Bèrto, but for many.

This is an open source project. This is the developers community 
("squeak-dev", right?). You are not expected to complain and wait. You 
are expected to help.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich



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