> On 30 Dec 2014, at 13:27, horrido <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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.
>
You have no idea what you are talking about.
> 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.
> \
I would advise you to not waste everyones time.
Please start DOING, stop TALKING. Keep in mind that you have until now
not done *anything at all*, yet you know exactly what everyone else
is supposed to be doing.
Marcus
