Repost (it was rejected as from the wrong account) On Wednesday, December 31, 2014, Ben Coman wrote:
> Hi richard, I appreciate your goal. Smalltalk & Pharo do need more PR. I > can see how Pharo not being "a smalltalk" may affect it being your > poster-child for your new site, however you should review the archives > before launching into that argument as a newcomer :) > Although as a PR exercise, outside viewpoints are useful. > > Certainly Pharo does not want to be "constrained" by being "a small talk" > per smalltalk80. However some of the recent posted historical videos put > that in perspective with several PARC small talk versions being quite > different. Small talk continually evolves. > > Btw, can you drop the movie quotations. It comes across a bit high-handed > - like it's trying to teach something - but I can't work out your implied > meaning. Someone else's words can only ever be an approximation. You own > words are better. > > Good Luck with your venture. I'll look into it more when I have Better > net access. > > Ben > > > On Wednesday, December 31, 2014, horrido <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> Which is why I've chosen Pharo as the public "face" of Smalltalk. It has >> the >> most active community, and the best chance of widespread adoption. >> >> Still, to call it a "new language", to say that "it's not Smalltalk", is a >> mistake. >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://forum.world.st/The-Smalltalk-Renaissance-Program-tp4797112p4797374.html >> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at >> Nabble.com. >> >>
