There is a long story about all that. But to be short: - if you call it Smalltalk then you have to make it compatible with other Smalltalks. And they are a lot in the 80s… - we want to make something new and cool what may be not always compatible.
So yeah On 05 Sep 2014, at 20:25, Mayuresh Kathe <mayur...@kathe.in> wrote: > hey, i've just been reading up the pharo forums, and one of the posts/entries > mentions something about pharo not being a smalltalk, but instead a dialect! > > is it true? > > that would mean, all or any code i write for pharo would not be portable to > other smalltalk-80 systems! > > hmnn... > > ~mayuresh > >
