Christoph,
Am 23.02.2012 um 09:31 schrieb Christoph Wysseier: > Dear Andreas > > Am 22.02.12 23:00, schrieb Andreas Wacknitz: >> >> Am 22.02.2012 um 10:34 schrieb Janko Mivšek: >> >>> S, Christoph Wysseier piše: >>> >>>> Stéphane Ducasse: >>> >>>>> I'm convinced that having support for multitouch event/ genie and >>>>> others works (for iPad = $$$$) is important. >>> >>>> Without pretending to know the future, IMHO standalone apps for tablets >>>> and mobile will disappear over time. Out of my perspective it would be >>>> far more important to move in the direction of web-based technologies >>>> also in this area. Looking at the success stories of Pharo and our own >>>> strategy I do not see the advantages of having multi-touch support for >>>> the development of such applications. >>> >>> I agree completely that web based techologies are where we should go >>> because we have advantage here with Smalltalk while for any kind of GUI >>> we are off. >> [stuff deleted] >> >> I like Smalltalk the language for its orthogonality and power. If I hear a >> statement >> like "we should go<enter hype term here> because its the future!" I have >> the feeling >> that somebody wants some followers on his or her main area of interest. > > Although I do not believe Web technolgies to be just a hype, it was not my > intention at all to convince everyone working with Pharo to use it from now > on for web applications only. There are of course several stakeholders with > different business or community ideas. Nevertheless, as we and others are > using Pharo as an IDE to develop web applications we need to be able to count > on the support of the board and community that the further development > considers our business model which does not lock out other ideas at all. > My message was not a reaction to your mail but to Janko's. I want Smalltalk (and especially Pharo) as an all purpose system. In my opinion it's a mistake to focus on a certain area like web technologies. And I guess as long as Pinesoft is doing well in business with traditional GUI's and INRIA is interested in research in dynamic languages (and not dynamic web languages) I don't have to fear that Pharo will go in that direction :-) Regards, Andreas
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