On Apr 15, 2012, at 7:59 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I think that pharo serves a need. The need for something solid and free from > restrictions related to software. > > Got interested in Smallatalk and Squeak quite a long time ago. But never > moved past the toy-stage with them. Went homoiconic with Tcl and "OO" with > the whole Java chain. > > With Pharo, there is a sense of progress, cleanliness, and will to push the > boundary by making some hard choices.
Thanks and I can tell you that we have more plans :) > And this made me interested in how things worked inside, and invest time and > energy in making it a key target platform for my ideas-materialization > activities in my business. Because business thrives on something solid, and > innovation doesn't like arbitrary restrictions. > > Owning and mastering the whole chain from VM up to Image detail is huge. In > Squeak, it is accretion. I think Pharo leans more towards the > "crystallization" side of things. (Yep, I drank the kool-aid). > I'm not sure. But we want a system to invent the next one.THis is why we work on the bootstrap and soon on new class builder and first instance variable work of camillo and toon.
