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From: atoenne@exunido.uucp (Andreas Toenne)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Smalltalk Release 4
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Date: 16 Jan 91 12:23:23 GMT
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In article <7393@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> kww@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Dr Kevin Waite) writes:
>Basically I am very disappointed with this release and with ParcPlace's
>grasp of software engineering principles.   Firstly, compared with
>version 2.5 the documentation for R4 is appalling.  Given that the

Right. Documentation is not complete and comments are sometimes old or
wrong. Hey! this is the first step. Do you remember 2.1 or 2.2 ?

>graphics model has been drastically changed and that there is no other

Take X11 as a reference. GraphicsContext is almost a copy of the X11
concepts. The color model is taken from some articles (some comments
refer to them).

>the form and bit editors have no equivalents in the new version.  

Why ? Use your platform editor and do copy/paste. I cannot imagine any
biteditor worse than BitEditor in 2.5.

>the removal of BOSS from the basic image to be a dreadful commercial
>ploy.  I am refusing to pay for the extra package just to get it.  

I agree.



	Andreas Toenne
	atoenne@unido.uucp