[self-interest] Re: The Effort on Self

[Thorsten Dittmar]

Hi,

> Again, the question must be: what's the goal.  To bring
> Self-the language
> to a broader audience, this is a good way.  If the goal is,
> to use Self-the
> semantics to script existing classes, this a good way.  But
> if you want to
> use Self-the environment, I'm not sure anymore.

I think it is not really a good goal to bring self to a broad audience right
now. Look at Java, they have so many problems because the start up was to
fast. We don't need a broad audience, we need a brilliant audience and after
we have "finished" we can bring it to the broad audience.

Thorsten