> It's the trade-off between *having a future* or *having the past*.
***excellent** we should twitter this one!!!
> Is the past of Smalltalk valuable enough to be able to not invest
> in the Future? Lot's of people think it is, but Pharo was started
> to *exactly* not do that.
>
> 10 years of "doing nothing" with Squeak is for me enough for
> the rest of my life... the reason there was not backward-compatibility,
> but "wanting too much". ("not do the next step because Squeak is so
> imortant that we can not settle for less then perfection").
>
> But *how* you rationalize standing still is not really important...
>
>> I hope that on the source level (particularly system classes) at
>> least upward compatibility remains.
>
> We deprecate important APIs and keep them for one Release.
>
> "Doing nothing is not an option".
Another excellent quote to twitter. You are in good form today.
Stef
