The best tribute to 50th anniversary will be the implementation of distributed multi-user VM. -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

Even better, to somehow port Pharo to the BEAM, like Ruby/Elixir. -----Original Message----- From: Pharo-users [mailto:pharo-users-bounces@lists.pharo.org] On Behalf Of ponyatov Sent: Monday, 6 January 2020 1:39 AM To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] How can we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Smalltalk? EXTERNAL: Do not click links or open attachments if you do not recognize the sender. The best tribute to 50th anniversary will be the implementation of distributed multi-user VM. -- Sent from: https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f131...

That's also what my first thought was: .Isn't 2020 the 40th BIrthday of Smalltalk? Not sure anyone who wasn't there at Xerox can judge this. I guess the ignition for many of the concepts our favourite environment are built upon dat eback into the 60ies... I personally celebrate Smalltalk every (working) day. I enjoy the fun and productivity each time I find a way to solve a problem at hand. Joachim Am 05.01.2020 um 19:27 schrieb tbrunz:

Did Smalltalk start with Smalltalk-72 or Smalltalk-80? (Or 1969, when work on it began..??)

ST-72 was an internal release; ST-80 was its first public release, in 1980.

I've always thought that 1980 was the birthday, so this year it turns 40... Am I wrong?

What's the consensus? Is it customary to go by the project start date, the first stable version, the first release to the public, or what?

-- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

On 6/01/20 3:18 a. m., Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:

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On 6 Jan 2020, at 06:11, Joachim Tuchel <jtuchel@objektfabrik.de> wrote:

I personally celebrate Smalltalk every (working) day. I enjoy the fun and productivity each time I find a way to solve a problem at hand. Well said.

+1 Is my case too. Is a joyful celebratory experience that happens on a common base. I think that an "official" celebration date helps to get awareness, like the Open Data Day [1] or the FLISoL[2], the biggest/oldest free/libre software install fest in the world with 20+ countries in sync the same day that we started ~15 years ago (but it lack of visibility, being done mostly in the Global South :-/). Anyway, having a similar celebratory event could help in this happy awareness for outsiders and insiders. Something like the Smalltalk Fest, where no matter where you live, or your variant of Smalltalk, we can celebrate together and raise the awareness on the happy experience that we have day to day. [1] https://opendataday.org/ [2] https://flisol.info/ Cheers, Offray