On 13 Aug 2020, at 03:44, Richard O'Keefe <raoknz@gmail.com> wrote:

Am I starting to hallucinate, or did I read some time in the last year that there are plans for a "long term stability" branch of Pharo?  That had me giving thanks.  Pharo is splendid, and that will give us the best of both worlds: a stable base for development WITHOUT holding back development of Pharo itself.

I think St��phane Ducasse may have completely misunderstood me.  I wonder what he thinks my "choice" is?  The only choice I'm aware of making is to continue being engaged with Pharo.  (Hint: I am not on the Squeak mailing list.  I don't even know if there is one any more.)  The unpleasantly disparate nature of "Smalltalk" does not make *Pharo* a bad choice, it just means that anyone who develops in Pharo with the aim of deploying in VW is facing a much harder task than they might have been led to expect.

I would also like to praise S.D. and his merry band for

(a) the free Smalltalk books

(b) the continuing series of books specifically about Pharo.

Is there some way I can contribute to the Pharo book(let)s?

I'm not too bad at proof-reading.

On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 01:43, St��phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:

"Protect me from my friends I will deal with my ennemies."

        Pharo is Pharo.

        The smalltalk community likes to complain but we prefer to invent the future.
        For the record we are helping companies to DELIVER and we are engaging
        any people that want to invent the future with us.

        I have often the impression that having success is bad in this wonderful communauty

        Horrido can���t you spend your energy in something more productive?
        What a drag?

        Richard O���Keefe, this is a pity because we will never learn much from your experience.
        Anyway this is your choice but a strange one. 

        I would love to have a type inferencer for Pharo.

        Sorry no time to spend more time on this.

S.

I did not do Pharo for ego I did it because else I would have join Lua or Python
because Squeak and VW were killing my Smalltalk flame.
I prefer doing than talking.