Tudor Girba-2 wrote > Pharo is Pharo. And we should promote it like that.
It is inherently confusing because originally "Smalltalk" meant "a language/environment that's continually reinvented every 4 years based on the knowledge gained by the last iteration". Then, Smalltalk-80 was frozen and released, and "Smalltalk" was repurposed in the wider world as a shorthand for Smalltalk-80. So, one would be correct in saying that Pharo is Smalltalk in the original meaning, as the next iteration after 80 (although it missed the 4 year target by a bit ha ha). But, since the nearly universal understanding of "Smalltalk" is Smalltalk-80, the "more true" and practical choice is to say that Pharo is Smalltalk-inspired (i.e. inspired by Smalltalk-80, but clearly not Smalltalk-80). HTH. ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Feature-request-poll-tp4718993p4719415.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
