Oh I can assure you they do, but even more they realize the "joy" of your libraries split over two different incompatible versions.  Like I am torn between squeak and pharo for many of the great libraries both packages do have. I can say its "so fun" not be able to use them all at the same time :D not to even start talking about the rest of fragmentation of the smalltalk land between different implementations.

But then I never expected smalltalk to be a smooth ride so its ok.



From: Igor Stasenko <siguctua@gmail.com>
To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr
Sent: Tuesday, 11 December 2012, 16:21
Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] About (backwards) Compatibility

what is interesting that people don't realize that they can have 2
versions of same software installed,
and use one or another, depending on need.





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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.