Paul D. Fernhout wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>Squeaks pretense issues, and its licensing issues, are - by the way - not >>unrelated >>when you look at it. >> >> > >Sometimes I think something like that myself. :-) > >But, to elaborate on your point a little more (in a toned down way :-): > > It is hard to know how to respond.
I don't know how to tone down on this particular issue any more than I have. If you want to call it an obsession, OK. You can search the archives of edu-sig and find me obsessively attacking Kay and not Squeak itself, but Kay's positioning of Squeak, from the earliest days here, and suffering attacks here for doing so as: a) being presumptuous. b) being irrelevant. Let's leave it that I fully accept the standard history, the importance of Smalltalk, the role of Kay during the period of history which you recount. And the fact that he is un-shy about recounting it, and having others recount it on his behalf, provides him with certain powers, but with certain responsibilities. I am not a fan of how he has handled that power and those responsibilities. But that if I have not yet successfully communicated why I firmly believe his later efforts, his later approach and most particularly his later "rap" is more destructive than productive, I guess that I have to resign myself to the fact that I never will. I assure you, I am making perfect sense to myself - however. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
