Nope quite the contrary. I came to pharo because I was interested in emacs.

I am doing coding for fun for 23 years now, I have used and messed around with most popular languages out there and in that time I never heard of Smalltalk nor I heard people mention it apart from a year or so ago someone in #emacs irc channel, after my complain that I love emacs (was using it for python coding) but I prefer GUIs he replied "maybe you should try squeak". And from squeak I came to pharo. ��I was python coder at the time and very happy one, so I had no intention of switching languages. I was just learning lisp because I wanted to find out what was the big deal with it since I knew several coders that made a lot of noise about it.��

I remained with it because for me Pharo unites two of my favorite development tools, python language and Delphi IDE. So no it was definitely not Smalltalk that brought me here and I suspect for most people applies the same apply since smalltalk is very unpopular. ��What brought me was emacs, python and delphi.��

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Janko Miv��ek <janko.mivsek@eranova.si> wrote:

Hi Kilon,

Dne 06. 11. 2013 12:00, pi��e kilon alios:

> I can only speak on behalf of newcomers as I am a newcomer myself, that
> I dont care if Pharo is smalltalk, a dialect, a byproduct , a hybrid,
> alien technology.

But you found Pharo because you were firstly interested in Smalltalk? If
Pharo wouldn't be Smalltalk, would you still found it the same way as
you did?

Best regards
Janko

What I care is that is well supported (bug wise),
> friendly community (forums), actively developed (updates/ bug fixes),
> stable enough, a breath of fresh air (who wants to use the same stuff)
> and sufficiently documented. See what I did there I did not even mention
> the language nor the environment.
>
> I am happy that Pharo is all these things, the fact that is smalltalk or
> a dialect of it, is just a happy accident ;)
>
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