> Pharo is not Smalltalk, but inspired by Smalltalk. On Pharo being a "new language"...
I presume you mean that Pharo will have additional new features and syntax that extend Smalltalk, making it a /superset/ of Smalltalk rather than just another /dialect/. I would be very cautious about doing this. One of the most desirable qualities of the Smalltalk /language/ is its pure simplicity. This is one of the things that the Xerox PARC team got absolutely correct. *You change this at your own peril.* If, on the other hand, you mean that the Pharo /environment/ (including the tooling and class libraries) will evolve and grow and improve, then you can't really call Pharo a "new language." Do not conflate the two things. >From "Alien": ASH: You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. LAMBERT: You admire it. ASH: I admire its purity. A survivor...unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. Generalissimo -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/The-Smalltalk-Renaissance-Program-tp4797112p4797368.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
