On 13 February 2010 03:12, Eagle Offshore <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the really tragic thing is that nothing in Smalltalk remains stable. >
Hehe.. and i love smalltalk exactly because of that! Let's not forget that it is hardware, which called 'an early frozen software'. Smalltalk evolves, because IT CAN. ;) But sure, its not hard to find a stable things nowadays - see java with its 'final' stuff :) > It would seem to me that in a language that has been around thirty years or > so that core data types like numbers, dates, times, and (hopefully, although > adoption of unicode was disruptive) strings would be the same across all the > dialects. > > By now, there should be some chunks of the system that we can deem fully > mature and then learn to LEAVE ALONE. > > The 16rff issue is a fine example of an absolutely stupid incompatibility. > > Just my $.04 > > -Todd Blanchard > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
