<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 6 Feb 2024 at 13:12, ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev <<a href="mailto:cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st">cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2024-02-06 04:09, H. Fernandes via Cuis-dev wrote:<br>
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> IMHO, your rewrite miss the needed neutral tone for a wikipedia <br>
> article. It may be rejected again. Btw, you completely discarded what I <br>
> wrote, trying my best to be neutral.<br>
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Different viewpoint. In your text, I saw no study or article supporting <br>
or quantifying "understandable by human". I was worried that this <br>
statement is not neutral.<br>
<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote">The expression “understandable by humans” sounds strange in this context, it could even be interpreted as condescending: Are other programming systems understandable by aliens? Maybe you meant comprehensible by a single human? Like in “personal mastery,” Ingalls (1981).<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
The draft text tries to do this by "Cuis aspiration" with TheCuisBook <br>
referencing the aspiration.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Some of my criticisms are *very* nuanced, I challenge the use of words like “aspiration” and ”enshrined” in their current context, but I'd have a hard time if you asked me to argue about it. It just sounds strange but I am not a native speaker.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I like the "Reduction of complexity" sentence, but without comparison <br>
how would one demonstrate this?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The mention of simplicity as a goal is ok but I wouldn't explain why complexity is wrong like in Hilaire's proposal. First, we cannot underestimate our readers. Second, in Hiliaire's text, that is an introductory paragraph. I'd suggest we just enumerate our principles first, and later we can expand if needed and pertinent to Cuis.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
By base image Class count, Squeak is 4x larger than Cuis and Pharo is <br>
3.5x larger than Squeak.<br>
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Without numbers it would be like saying some engine company makes <br>
smaller engines, rather than specifying range of weight or horse power.<br>
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I see that people are worried about this comparison. You are the third <br>
person to point this out.<br>
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Please suggest alternate text. We can ask a reviewer when we submit, <br>
but good to make things best we can first.<br>
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> The article should focus on what Cuis can offer and also make it <br>
> special, with detailled description. There is no much need to write <br>
> about the other Smalltalk and compare with other Smalltalk, this turns <br>
> the article as a marketing/evengelist writing. We can have this type of <br>
> content, but not in Wikipedia<br>
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My blind spot. I see several articles describing Smalltalks and want to <br>
ask "what is different?". Perhaps the wrong question to address in this <br>
context.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am confident that we can answer what is different about Cuis without a direct comparison to other distributions; yet I don't feel it would be wrong to state some facts like class count. The problem I foresee is that someone will have to maintain those tables updated.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I will also try alternate text to be better.<br>
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Thanks for the insight,<br>
-KenD<br>
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