Hi Squeak People ! I am mostly just a lurker on this mail/news list about Squeak. I've been "playing" with Squeak ever since there has been a version that runs on Windows ( what was that, something like version 1.3 ? ) and have really enjoyed the diverse conversations that crop up on this list - even the acrimonious ones ;-/ . I have watched Squeak become more and more useable with excitement. I am not a professional developer but I am a professional software tester ( currently dot-canned, but that's another story ) . Every so often I become re-interested in the latest Squeak/Smalltalk developments and I get the bug to play around some more with Squeak. The problem is that I too many interests - so I am not always climbing that learning curve. Lately ,since I've had more time on my hands, I've been using the latest alpha version of Squeak ( 3.2 alpha 4441) and for what I've been doing, it seems quite stable. I really like the UI improvements, the more 3-Dimensional look and feel, and it *does* seem to run faster than before . I don't have much to say except that I find it to be a great pleasure and an honor to be able to participate ( or just lurk ) in a mail list such as this in which the founders,movers and shakers of the Smalltalk movement regularly chime in ! Thanks to Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls in particular. Not to get too mushy here, but you guys SqueakCentral are heroes to me ! I used to test for Asymetrix ( Now Click2learn.Inc.) , maker of Toolbook if anyone out there knows of it. I used to tell my co-workers about Squeak and lobbied to get them to use it for a commercial project but to no avail . Toolbook is in it's own way kind of similar to Smalltalk ,but Squeak is several orders of magnitude more flexible . Last thing I want to say , I would like to create a simulation of a spider building an orb web ( kind of Halloweeny I guess) in Morphic. Can anyone give me a pointer as to how I should do this ? I just want it to be an etoy type animation . Thanks folks ! - Russ Van Rooy
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