exactly !! before Pharo
Squeak was a nightmare for me and I'm grateful to the Pharo contributors Am 31.08.2011 um 11:14 schrieb Sean P. DeNigris: > This incredible piece of feedback was hiding at > http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/HowToContribute . We should all have > this pinned to the wall behind our computer: > > Sometimes I make some "exercise" on Smalltalk/Squeak for the fun, sometimes > I try to build tools in Squeak to solve some practical problem or personal > need. I'm not a programmer, just a curious guy, completely ignorant about > programming, who, some years ago, found Smalltalk/Squeak to be the only > human programming language I could cope with. But every time I try to do > something with Squeak I stumble on this inevitable conclusion: it is one of > the most entropic things I ever met in my life. The reason for this may lay > partly on structural reasons - I wouldn't know, because I'm an ignorant, as > I stated before. But there is a second reason I know for sure: the owners' > and contributors' inability to step out of the developer's perspective, to > put a distance towards themselves (and towards the result of their work). As > a result, Squeak is probably the worst documented language in the world. > Documentation and comments on the code are completely entropic, > self-centered, tautological; it is experts talking to all-knowing experts - > like those stupid old-fashioned dictionaries where every word definition > tends to be built with the defined word. Until now I had a look to Pharo > system browser only for a few minutes, but that was enough for me to get the > impression that you are trying to get over this dreadful limitation, to jump > over the limits of an strictly enclosed community, rehearsing new tentative > styles to comment code and classes. If I got it right and this is true, > congratulations and thank you very much for your effort. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/The-Keys-to-the-Kingdom-tp3780556p3780556.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
