Pharo is not only targeted at business..you can do research and other cool stuff on top of it. For example, Athens, Ring, the new Event-Model, and many other enhancements and additions to Pharo over the recent years, enable the development of new UI frameworks, in an easier and more elegant manner than before. Fernando On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:

On Feb 2, 2012, at 11:21 PM, Helene Bilbo wrote:

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Marcus Denker-4 wrote

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So there are multiple problems:

1) Morphic is not and API or a codebase but and idea (or principle) And the question is even: a good one? In the current state for sure not. For sure it's instantiation depends *a lot* on the language model you have.

I think exactly the Morphic ideas (or principles) (not the squeak morphic code or the missing documentation or a morphic implementation in javascript) were so very charming, elegant and intriguing. Directly manipulating, combining Objects/Morphs and - as i read in this paper about LivelyKernel [1] - serializing them.

But as i understood the Pharo Vision Document, Pharo is more aimed at business customers and therefor strives for being similar to other business oriented smalltalks rather than becoming Squeak with cleaner and smaller code and better documentation (which would have been also a very nice goal)?

Pharo wants to be a platform where people can innovate so if you want to innovate at the UI level (for example Gaucho) you need a good and flexible infrastructure.

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[1] http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/publications/media/LinckeKrahnIngal...

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