On Mar 29, 2013, at 2:59 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <sean@clipperadams.com> wrote:
p.s. Pharo has laid a lot of groundwork in the last few years to magnify all this. When I first discovered Smalltalk, I was excited by the power, but frustrated by the mess under the covers of Squeak (FileDirectory was particularly agonizing). Whenever I started to develop a revolutionary-next-cool tool, I ran into a mess like the text model. Since then, Pharo has been steadily evolving many foundational pieces. There has been an upfront cost of backward-compatibility, as some great projects have not kept pace. But it seems all worth it, as I feel us approaching a critical point where the clean, beautiful system will inspire and support the next generation of amazing ideas on top of Pharo.
I think so too. We often neglect the power of sound infrastructure. For example I know industrial people that are evaluating Pharo for their UI prototyping and it is using Athens and soon cool event touch infrastructure. Stef