On Mar 29, 2013, at 2:59 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]> wrote:
> p.s. Pharo has laid a lot of groundwork in the last few years to magnify all > this. When I first discovered Smalltalk, I was excited by the power, but > frustrated by the mess under the covers of Squeak (FileDirectory was > particularly agonizing). Whenever I started to develop a > revolutionary-next-cool tool, I ran into a mess like the text model. Since > then, Pharo has been steadily evolving many foundational pieces. There has > been an upfront cost of backward-compatibility, as some great projects have > not kept pace. But it seems all worth it, as I feel us approaching a > critical point where the clean, beautiful system will inspire and support > the next generation of amazing ideas on top of Pharo. I think so too. We often neglect the power of sound infrastructure. For example I know industrial people that are evaluating Pharo for their UI prototyping and it is using Athens and soon cool event touch infrastructure. Stef
