timrowledge wrote
What would I like to be able to use Squeak for? Everything.
Amen to that!
[rant, but hopefully not too OT] I recently forayed into the bash world to get CI up and running for my Smalltalk projects - certainly one of the circles of hell! Where one would simply write a simple, understandable code snippet in Smalltalk, in the bash world, you have to know insanely-irrelevant-to-the-task-at-hand things like "alphabetize the arguments and put each one on a separate line with a command line break (`… /`) so that git diffs will be easier to compare manually - W.T.H.!! I got so frustrated that I stopped and took a half a day to wrap the "logic" in Smalltalk - phewww much better. Reading the docs, which had no sense of irony or even awareness that they were seemingly spending most of their time and energy on accidental complexity instead of performing useful work, I thought of Alan Kay's statement (heavily paraphrased) that many programmers relish in systems in direct proportion to their obtuseness because they get satisfaction of being the only person on earth to be able to actually make the thing work! [/rant, but hopefully not too OT]
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