Irrational Exuberance

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Why Squeak rubs so many different camps of developers in the wrong way.

You are responding to this comment written by Mark Murphy on March 5th 2008, 19:36.

I worked on Smalltalk back in the 1992-95 timeframe, using VisualWorks. In terms of sheer syntactical elegance, nothing beats Smalltalk -- I could teach that language to damn near everyone. But you are right, that the traditional Smalltalk IDE-in-the-image model will drive lots of developers nuts.

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