2012/12/11 Chris Muller <[email protected]>: > If my goal is to make my computer work for ME, then I want my > development system to maximize my leverage and minimize my effort. > Breaking compatibility for cleaner code subverts this, as Hannes said, >
One thing is clear, forking is not anything near minimizing the effort, quite the opposite. It's the way to build one's own jail - some will say to be free ;). Clearly, Marcus and Stephane have other goals and it's a good thing to have both Squeak and Pharo. >>> Constant input in maintenance effort is needed. > > I want to use my time applying Smalltalk to real-world problems, not > API changes. > > A blue-plane innovation is worth breaking backward compatibility, > reinventing the past isn't. > Ah, if future is the past, then I wonder whether it's not yet another damned Smalltalk circularity trick ;) > >>> maintaining libraries and maybe compatibility layers are very welcome. >>> >> Yes, and how did we ever thought we could invent the future with Squeak >> when in reality, we could not even change a typo in a comment? >> >> Marcus >> >> >> >> >
