I find this debate interesting... but a bit strange For me, Smalltalk-80 is what is inside the 80's book, and no implementation of Smalltalk was really Smalltalk-80 but something else (some principles plus a huge amount of code)... Pharo is no more different from Smalltalk-80 than all the others were, and, compared to Self, Pharo looks like a very tame variant :)
So for me, Pharo will stay Pharo Smalltalk: a member of a large family which I had the pleasure to work in and use for a very long time, and in many different shapes but still respecting the same core principles. Thierry ________________________________________ De : Pharo-dev [[email protected]] de la part de Sean P. DeNigris [[email protected]] Date d'envoi : mardi 5 novembre 2013 17:53 À : [email protected] Objet : Re: [Pharo-dev] Feature request poll 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.
