From: Joey Gibson <joey@...>
Date: 2004-01-21T21:45:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposal for programming language of the year

On 1/21/2004 1:05 AM, Carsten Eckelmann wrote:

> Why exactly is using Squeak a limitation? Could you expand a little 
> more on that subject? I thought Squeak is a full-featured Smalltalk 
> system?


Maybe that was a bad choice of words. The last time I wanted to use 
Squeak, I was looking at it to create a business application. I had 
created business apps using VisualWorks and Dolphin Smalltalk before, so 
I thought it would be similar. As I was searching about for 
documentation, everything I could find seemed to only care about doing 
'cool' graphical things, not boring business apps. When I asked about 
doing these types of things on one of the mailing lists, I got several 
responses along the lines of 'well, you _could_ create a business app 
with it, but it's more focused on graphics.' That was a couple of years 
ago, so perhaps it's changed since then; I haven't bothered to look at 
it again lately.

Joey

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