Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

[Cameron Sanders via Pharo-dev]

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So was SciSmalltalk renamed?
-cam

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Torsten Bergmann <asta...@gmx.de> wrote:

> It is understandable that over time an own identity for Pharo is helpful
> (especially
> because of the bad Smalltalk marketing, failures of commercial vendors in
> the past, ...).
> But also no one can not deny/hide the original roots of Pharo: the primary
> foundations
> with pure objects all the way down and messages and concepts just plain
> Smalltalk.
> Same for the basic class hierarchy, ...
>
> So this discussion is useless, especially because Pharo still lacks many
> of the
> features a portable, integratable environment should have (and that
> Smalltalk
> failed to deliver, at least in a common way). We should not confuse
> wishes/dreams
> with existing state of the technology and facts.
>
> Also why discuss about this now again? Did we discuss about renaming SUnit
> into PUnit? No.
> This just burns our cycles.
>
> For the marketing part there is a primary question to be answered: what
> are the
> (business) problems Pharo can solve. At least if we want Pharo to be
> commercially
> viable and get money (not only our own) into the community.
> This is the part that was answered by other languages and technologies so
> far and
> the simple reason why they are used: even when they are ugly they solve a
> problem.
>
> Nonetheless:
> ============
> If there is a rename I would suggest to rename "SciSmalltalk"
> into "Polymath".
>  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath
>  - it can be applied to many subject areas
>  - would be related to Math and science
>  - would also have a "P" like Pharo in the name
>  - Da Vinci was a polymath person, as well as Imhotep :)
>
> Bye
> T.
>
>

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