Well, yet another ant doing business w/ Pharo over here. I signed for the consortium and not for staying stuck in the eighties for sure.
Phil On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote: > Janko, > > On 22 May 2013, at 17:43, Janko Mivšek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dne 22. 05. 2013 16:14, piše stephane ducasse: > > > >> PS: we are ants running around while elephants (python, ruby, > Javascripts) are passing close by. > >> Not making serious progress is death. > > > > We will be even smaller ants if we won't cooperate and listen to each > > other, and this thread is exact example, how listening don't go very > well. > > > > Also, sending messages like Pharo as Smalltalk-inspired instead of > > naming it proudly as Pharo Smalltalk is also a short-sighted, again > > making divisions instead of cooperation. Not to mention that outside > > world is confused, questioning if Pharo is or will stay Smalltalk at all. > > > > And ants we are smaller and smaller... > > It is actually the complete opposite: the Pharo project is responsible for > a lot of, if not most, renewed interest in Smalltalk. The last couple of > years, activity in the Pharo community has been increasing steadily. The > sheer amount of people and projects is proof of that. > > It is precisely due to the direction and actual steps taken by Pharo that > so many organisations and business are using it. And although the Pharo > vision is much more than that, the approach to moving forward, sometimes > taking ownership and responsibility and occasionally breaking backwards > compatibility, is what makes the current velocity of change possible. > > And there are so many more cool things in the pipeline. > > Sven > > > Janko > > > > > > -- > > Janko Mivšek > > Aida/Web > > Smalltalk Web Application Server > > http://www.aidaweb.si > > > > >
