+1 I understand the part about making Pharo appeal more to the wider audience in this decade and ahead....
Let me put in the effort in making that happen, before I say another word on this. Making a platform that I can be most productive in be the most accepted one across the industry is a big win for me... On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Sean P. DeNigris <s...@clipperadams.com>wrote: > Here's my musings about how we integrate the two motives - to acknowledge > our > heritage /and/ break out of our pigeon hole. My key point here is to > gradually introduce the Smalltalk part after people are deep enough to have > gotten excited about the ideas without dismissing them because of cultural > baggage... > > Drilling down: > 1. Sound bite: "Pharo - The immersive programming experience" > 2. Why Pharo: (about a paragraph, like the one on the site now, "Pharo > gives > you immediate and total control over your programming experience..." > 3. What is it. Here we can accurately paint the nuanced picture, > distinguishing Smalltalk as an idea based on design principles vs. > Smalltalk-80. If "Smalltalk" more exactly means an environment + libraries > + > a language (I think that order is important - the syntax was always the > least interesting thing about Smalltalk). What we might really say if we > had > the time to go beyond an initial sound bite is: > Pharo is: > - a [pick 2 or 3 of: dynamic, open, immersive, live] environment > (like an > IDE and OS rolled into one) > - beautifully designed core libraries including a web > client/server, FFI, > Y, Z... > - a dialect of the Smalltalk programming language > > For #1, the inspiration is most accurately the Dynabook > For #2, IMHO enough components have been rewritten to stand on it's own > For #3, this is where we are most obviously a Smalltalk, and should be > clear > about it > > And in an FAQ answer any common objections people might have: > Q: Is Pharo Smalltalk? > A: When most people hear "Smalltalk", they think of Smalltalk-80, which > Pharo is not. However, Smalltalk is really an idea... the lineage of which > Pharo is a proud member > Q: Can I talk to the world outside the environment? > A: Yes! While the original Smalltalk was quite insulated, now you can > [interact on the command line](link to unix command line examples e.g. the > very Ruby-like pharo [image filename] -e "self inform: 'hello world'"), > [talk to C libraries](link to native boost), etc. > yada yada yada > > > > ----- > Cheers, > Sean > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/Pharo-is-Smalltalk-and-Not-tp4757342p4757348.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > >
