Er, maybe I'll rant here since it' seems to me this the day for that. Perhaps flavoured a bit with Ralph's accidental post about cilantro. Should we not be talking about the Smalltalk 2010 ANSI proposal? Why the lock in to the Smalltalk ANSI INCITS 319-1998 (R2002) standard? I think this fits into Stephane's comment about moving forward. On 2010-02-11, at 1:51 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote:
Now why don;t people want a better smalltalk?
Sure, everybody wants a better Smalltalk.
The ANSI standard does not make scripting impossible, it does not forbid first class instance variables, it does not forbid a MOP or a module system.
The ANSI standard only talks about the basic Smalltalk syntax, Collections, Magnitudes, Streams. That's it. I don't think it is limiting in any way.
Lukas
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