Markus, I hesitate to think I could say it any better than Stef did. I can, however, say it differently. The answer to your question is "All of them." Obviously, that will not happen in one release, as witnessed by the milestones on the wiki. Bill -----Original Message----- From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [mailto:pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Stéphane Ducasse Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 4:47 AM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: {Spam?} Re: [Pharo-project] Which Squeak problem do you try to solve Markus We loved Squeak: I'm amongst the guy with marcus that did so much etoy and squeak presentations... We translated etoy books in french, german.... We wrote SqueakByExample, we gave lecture all around europe.... We produced a robust release (3.9) We pushed unit tests in squeak. But but but we got burnt to the point of being sick of smalltalk because of code rot and lack of consciousness. Squeak nearly killed our fun and before turning to ruby or python we gave a try to do pharo. Did you look at the code of squeak Project Etoy PasteUpMorph Morph classes? if not I suggest you do it :) This is striking. Take for example Project>>enter: returningFlag revert: revertFlag saveForRevert: saveForRevert Pharo is not an exploratory project. We want to have a good open source smalltalk. Eventually with a scripting syntax, closure, modules, new mop, new files library, unicode support, clean compiler, ..... better IDE, refactoring, better Lint rules, smaller memory footprint. We want to make sure that people can invent good/excellent sotfware system with pharo and at the same time we want to reinvent/rethink smalltalk. So this will be difficult because users will complain but they will get a better system: more tests, more documentation, better design.... Even rebuild etoy on top of it. But only on top not everywhere inside. So we free to join. Now pharo is not a democracy there is no voting board process (because we were with goran the guys that started the squeakfoundation): we will let the community discuss, propose, argue, **send code** and at the end if there is a conflict we will decide (adrian, marcus, mickael, and me) Normally this will be a rare case. We can decide to ask somebody to join the board but this is our decision. We will be transparent, all our decisions are public. Now as a contributor you can really get an impact: alain/gary are a clear examples of that -- we value their code action -- alain removed MVC and isMorphic. So we will always consider your contributions and tell you why we do not integrate them, we will always consider code that improve the system. Stef
After reading your interesting project website, I'm still not quite sure which (Squeak) problem do you try to solve with Pharo? Or is it more an exploratory project?
Thanks in advance for any reply
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