AFAIK Pharo technically is not even compatible with Squeak which is where it forks form.
You assume the code you write will automatically be incompatible to smalltalk-80 but since pretty much a huge percentage of the functionality of Pharo and Smalltalk is in libraries since the language itself is so minimal , I dont think it would be so hard to make your Pharo code smalltalk-80 friendly. I advice doing your own tests and seeing for yourself. Then ask questions how to solve problems you encounter. No reason to panic before facing the facts :) On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymc...@me.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > >
