Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> writes: > Il 23/12/2012 23:58, Mehul Sanghvi ha scritto: >> Squeak and Pharo are good, but GNU Smalltalk does serve a purpose. It >> is intended for scripting purposes, which neither Squeak and Pharo, as >> far as I know, can do since they are tightly bound to full blown GUI >> environments. > > Squeak and Pharo's FSF-freeness is undoubtedly a good thing, but a > Smalltalk like gst still has its place. The Javascript-based Amber > Smalltalk is much more similar to gst and perhaps could grow enough > functionality to be a replacement.
Paolo, You see Amber being a replacement of GST? I really don't think so, Amber's primary goal is to bring a Smalltalk language and environment to the web. GST has its place and purpose, please do not let it die :) Cheers, Nico > > Paolo > >> Paolo also provides lots of help for newbies (like >> myself), so I hope he doesn't give up on GNU Smalltalk. Forking I don't >> believe would be >> the right way to go. Jenkins/Hudson ? OpenOffice/LibreOffice ? >> Nah, I wouldn't want that for GNU Smalltalk. > -- Nicolas Petton http://nicolas-petton.fr _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
