[squeak-dev] MC 1.5/1.6 (Re: [Cuis] Cuis - Cross fork compatibility of packages: A proposal)

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Tue Feb 2 18:53:48 UTC 2010


Ok, well comments like this must mean why my hindbrain is looking at Ginsu again. 

On 2010-02-01, at 10:25 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Hi Ken -
> 
> Ken G. Brown wrote:
>> I am finding it somewhat odd that you seem to be willing to hack your ancient trunk fork of MC any which way, but with the big potential wins of the MC1.5/1.6 versions, I'm thinking someone like yourself with the necessary detailed system knowledge, might be able to apply some appropriate fixes to bring MC into a better working state. Even if it might be an interim solution, it seems to me there could be some real gains.
> 
> I think you're misunderstanding my relationship with MC. I don't particularly like MC, I find the code base very hard to understand and very difficult to follow due to the complete lack of any comments. Self-documenting code my a** as one of my colleagues here would say.

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