Inlined notes I agree nothing earth shaking is happening in Smalltalk in just the 6 months, but over the last 4 yrs it is a quite a shift in Pharo. Hats off to all active contributers.
I quite disagree... on the fact nothing is happening. While all intellectually inclined love the idea of creating anew something ground breaking, it is in current decade more important to ensure we create relevant technology not just for the sake of claiming high ground. Wolfram , Google, FB may be creating their islands of tech bubbles and that may take the world too, but they have the billions I guess to afford. On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:06 AM, horrido <[email protected]> wrote: > Bret Victor's talk is certainly interesting. This got me thinking... > > What we need is a modern-day PARC with a /next generation/ of visionaries > to > advance Smalltalk. They would carry on the work that was begun four decades > ago. > > Here's the thing: The Smalltalk environment has not fundamentally changed > or improved since the Xerox PARC days. We've been tweaking the design here > and there, but nothing groundbreaking has happened. > > Is the current Smalltalk environment the /final word/ on the nature of > dynamic programming and humane representation of thought? I seriously doubt > it. > > Who are the visionaries that will shake things up? How do we find them? > Stephane Ducasse and team are visionaries in as much as Pharo is shaking things up on Smalltalk world . Lots of new things have already been charted out, of course the tough grind of actually cleaning and providing a meaningful free Smalltalk environment for the enterprise world is a gargantuan task and I see it as being reached gradually in Pharo. That will itself be etched in history 10 yrs later as a great achievement. > > Let's face it: We've all become rather complacent. (With the exception of > Newspeak, which frankly doesn't impress me much. *We don't need a new > language!*) > > For four years I have seen the kind of energy/ enthusiasm unmatched in the last decade or more in Pharo resurgence. Free Enterprise Smalltalk, is about arriving in the IT industry.. just some honchos need to weave it in. > This is something Smalltalk Renaissance should think about. > > Much said and done in Pharo, there is nothing stopping any group in > creating something more powerful / relevant and leave the footprints in the > sands of time more firmly etched. I agree again there is lot of scope > provided that group does it.. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/The-Smalltalk-Renaissance-Program-tp4797112p4797243.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > >
