On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 10:41:52AM +0200, Lord ZealoN wrote:
Well, sometimes I send this to the maillist but never get answers.
I would like to know your opinion about this.
Squeak/Smalltalk is powerful, but for users, or developers in other environments (VB, C, Java etc..), looks like a toy. No games on it, No "famous" app's. All, etoys for kids and a mouse as logo. I think the squeak "world" needs changes, remove pinks colors in the image, and a large etc...
No serious apps? Well I think I'd call large multinational company payroll systems serious. And major financial systems and a number of big military apps. A non-trivial number of web apps running on Seaside. IIRC LibertyBasic is implemented on Smalltalk. And then there is Squeak, which I consider a pretty serious application, for all it's faults.
'a mouse for a logo' - well, yes and how is that bad compared to a penguin, a coffee cup, a camel or any other logo? I happen to think (but then I'm biased) that it looks pretty damn good on all the books, caps, sweatshirts, badges, tshirts etc that I've been sent. Nobody has done a squeak logo lambourghini to send me yet....
Aside from that I concur very much with what matthew said.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Useful random insult:- Hypnotized as a child and couldn't be woken.