[squeak-dev] Re: Amazing stuff (Was: Re: The future of Squeak & Pharo (was Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN] Pharo MIT license clean))

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Mon Jun 29 07:45:45 UTC 2009


Igor Stasenko wrote:
> Stéphane ,
> i found some amazing stuff for you in Squeak.
> 
> Look for senders of:
> 
> #isKindOf:orOf:
> 
> and if you not yet fully amazed , then look at senders of
> 
> #ownerThatIsA:
> 
> Amazing!

It would be useful if you stopped being so polemic. You are not making 
any point that I can see.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

> 2009/6/29 Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/6/29 Stéphane Rollandin <lecteur at zogotounga.net>:
>>>>>> - Not backward compatible
>>>> because, unfortunately, it is a main obstacle for moving forward.
>>>> Or maybe not? Maybe we should start making amazing stuff right now?
>>> I am doing amazing stuff with Squeak right now. I have been doing so for
>>> years.
>>>
>> Then we're putting different meaning in an 'amazing' word.
>> I can do amazing stuff, but its often requires hacks, workarounds and
>> other different gotchas,
>> which i hate to put into my code. And after all of that, fairly, i
>> can't call it amazing anymore. Can you?
>>
>>> Now that Pharo provides the non-backward compatible way, which is fine, I
>>> don't understand why the question arises for Squeak once again. Pharo is the
>>> solution, isn't it ? (and I mean it).
>>>
>> You may feel content about code, which rots there for years, and
>> no-one even cares rewriting/optimizing/making it better.
>> But i don't. I don't like sitting on the gas canister and hoping that
>> next spark will not blow it up.
>>
>>> Stef
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>>
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