Igor Stasenko wrote
Smalltalk by its nature are made to be easily changed. ... Please don't turn the idea into dogma.
YES!!! Part of the confusion is that Smalltalk and Smalltalk-80 get collapsed, but are not the same. Smalltalk-80 was the fifth cycle (per the Blue Book) in what was supposed to be a continuous process of learning how to do systems... Please see "The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet", Alan Kay's keynote, October 7, 1997, OOPSLA'97 - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2950949730059754521 (if you must, skip to 57:25 for the part most relevant to this reply). Here are some quotes (in order of relevance): "The deepest thing I would like to communicate with you today... is we don't know how to design systems yet. So let's not make what we don't know into a religion for god's sakes." "The thing that I'm most proud of about Smalltalk - pretty much the only thing from my standpoint that I'm proud of - is that is has been so good at getting rid of previous versions of itself" "One of the things we liked about Smalltalk was not what it could do, but the fact that it was such a good vehicle for bootstrapping the next set of ideas we had about how to do systems programming" "We have to have our systems let us get to the next levels of abstraction as we come to them." "A couple of years ago we started this project called Squeak, which is simply not an attempt to give the world a free Smalltalk, but an attempt to give the world a bootstrapping mechanism for something much better than Smalltalk, and when you fool around with Squeak, please, please, think of it from that standpoint. Think of how you can obsolete the damn thing by using its own mechanisms for getting the next version of itself." -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/I-added-a-german-wikipedia-article-on-pharo-tp4638330p... Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.