Re: [Pharo-dev] The Smalltalk Renaissance Program
Repost (it was rejected as from the wrong account) On Wednesday, December 31, 2014, Ben Coman wrote:
Hi richard, I appreciate your goal. Smalltalk & Pharo do need more PR. I can see how Pharo not being "a smalltalk" may affect it being your poster-child for your new site, however you should review the archives before launching into that argument as a newcomer :) Although as a PR exercise, outside viewpoints are useful.
Certainly Pharo does not want to be "constrained" by being "a small talk" per smalltalk80. However some of the recent posted historical videos put that in perspective with several PARC small talk versions being quite different. Small talk continually evolves.
Btw, can you drop the movie quotations. It comes across a bit high-handed - like it's trying to teach something - but I can't work out your implied meaning. Someone else's words can only ever be an approximation. You own words are better.
Good Luck with your venture. I'll look into it more when I have Better net access.
Ben
On Wednesday, December 31, 2014, horrido <horrido.hobbies@gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','horrido.hobbies@gmail.com');>> wrote:
Which is why I've chosen Pharo as the public "face" of Smalltalk. It has the most active community, and the best chance of widespread adoption.
Still, to call it a "new language", to say that "it's not Smalltalk", is a mistake.
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I use movie quotations frequently in my writings as a "signature" of my writing style. It's obviously not to everyone's taste. However, as this is an /international/ audience I am addressing, I shall refrain from using them. Similarly for my subtle sense of humour: I like to play on words. For example, whenever I talk about the Vala programming language, I always refer to it as "Vala Mal Doran". Unless you are a *Stargate: SG-1* fan, however, you won't understand the reference and the humour. Thanks for your input. Ben Coman wrote
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On Wednesday, December 31, 2014, Ben Coman wrote:
Btw, can you drop the movie quotations. It comes across a bit high-handed - like it's trying to teach something - but I can't work out your implied meaning. Someone else's words can only ever be an approximation. You own words are better.
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