On Jul 5, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Helene Bilbo wrote:
Sean P. DeNigris wrote
Pharo, as a Smalltalk is "a powerful information system... that can grow as the user's ideas grow.". It is composed of a Programming Language - "an interface between the models in the human mind and those in computing hardware" - and a User Interface, which "matches the human communication system to that of the computer" (quotes from the Blue Book). As a live, open, dynamic environment, it is much more than just "a programming language", which is why straight syntax comparisons to other languages miss the point.
Yes you are right, of course. This should be taken into account in a wikipedia entry.
What my question was about, was rather: Is is still Smalltalk?
Right now I think it is. There is not much different. There are Traits, but else...
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. Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de