Hi guys, On 05. 07. 2012 11:07, Marcus Denker wrote:
On Jul 5, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Helene Bilbo wrote:
And i ask, because the first line on the Pharo homepage says itâs: "Smalltalk-inspiredâ.
The idea is that if Pharo is Smalltak, it will always be Smalltalk. We can not move on. If it is Smalltalk Inspired, we can take the *ideas* behind Smalltalk and seriously move forward.
E.g. take the Slots. Smalltalk has no first class Slots, Pharo will. If Pharo would *be* Smalltalk it could not.
Why not rather move all Smalltalk forward instead? Good ideas from Pharo should be communicated to other Smalltalks. And vice versa - good ideas from other Smalltalks should be studied and put in Pharo. But Pharo should stay Smalltalk, not 'Smalltalk inspired'. Please, don't divide Smalltalk community but act as much as possible in joint spirit! Which of course doesn't mean that moving forward is necessary. And I also don't see why you cannot move forward and stay Smalltalk? Certainly not from a Slots example. If Pharo will try to distance from Smalltalk rather than contribute and improve it, I'm sure many of us will rethink if Pharo is worth supporting or not. Best regards Janko -- Janko Mivšek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si