On 05/05/2011 12:45, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
Now for pharo we have a vision: We want a system to invent the next one and that people can make a living with it. - bootstrappable - clean lean robust - (ideally) good interface with C - (ideally) a lovely fast readable documentd extensible VM - good infrastructure - meta model for code - browser for remote/crosscompilation/default browsing - new compiler - first class instance variable - new network layer - new graphics - new module system
At the end it may not be Smalltalk but it will be the same spirit. I think that we are slowly getting to the point where we will start to invent new things instead of just removing old experiences.
I rather believe it will be Smalltalk. After all, consider how different each step of ST-72 to ST-80 was from each other, yet they were all still Smalltalk.