+ 100000000 :) I want to invent a reasonable future :)
On Jun 20, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Marcus Denker wrote: > > On 20.06.2009, at 10:52, Cameron Sanders wrote: > >> They could probably all learn from the other flavors. In fact, the >> cross-smalltalk portability is a negative for smalltalk. >> >> I believe I tried smalltalk/X... that's the natively-compiled one, >> right? So it feels like C++ if you change a root class -- or am I >> confusing it with another? I'm on a new platform and can't check what >> all I installed last year, at the moment. >> >> I like the idea of a compiled version!! And there would be a place >> for >> it in my world, *if* I could take code from Pharo and load it into >> say, Smalltalk/X, and have it work without a month-long debugging >> session. > > One huge problem with compatibility is always that it reduces any > possibility > in evolving/improving the system. If the goal is to be compatible to > e.g. > all of Smalltalk X, Visualworks, Squeak, Gemstone.... than, in the > end, this means we can not > do anything anymore, and, most importantly: we can not do any *fun* > things anymore. > > Beeing compatible means reducing what you do to the subset of all the > dialects, and than > stop doing anything. > > If I you should choose between a) "inventing the future" and b) "be > compatible to VisualWorks", > what would you take? > > And I personally have already choosen for the "inventing the future" > route, I guess. It makes > no sense to be in Research (and beeing payed those wonderful tiny > salaries) and than do boring stuff. > That makes no sense. > > I personally think that the possibility and duty of working on > interesting things is part of the > overall compensation package of people in Research. > > Marcus > > -- > Marcus Denker - http://marcusdenker.de > PLEIAD Lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
