On 26 February 2012 11:33, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 26, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > >> Hi hannes >> >> I tried to understand the purpose of your emails but I could not. >> - So do you suggest that we all stop Smalltalk and move to javascript? >> - What is your motivation? >> - This is good for us to know that but then so what? >> - Does it help us anyhow to make pharo better? >> - Did you try to port the code to Squeak? >> - Do you know if the global handling of coordinates have been changed? >> We can spend our life looking why other people are doing or we can invent >> OUR future. >>
yes, when you want to do something for real, you must CHOOSE concrete things which you will be using and after that you stick with it. or keep jumping between myriads of fancy and promising techs just losing time doing nothing.. > > For the "Lets all just do JavaScript". There was a very, uhm , disappointed > blog post by > Gilad after they did the javascript implementation of NewSpeak... > Well, his post was about how good js as an 'assembler language'.. and i agree not very good. But if you use js as-is (not to build a language on top of it), morphic fits well, even better than in smalltalk since SELF is also prototype-based and morphic exploits this feature everywhere. > JavaScript is *not* a good implementation language for languages. Especially > not if > you want to do something new. If you build on top of JS, you will be very > very contraint > in what is possible... and the things *I* want to build in the future with > Pharo > are just impossible to do on top of javascript. > > Marcus > > > -- > Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
