Am I starting to hallucinate, or did I read some time in the last year that there are plans for a "long term stability" branch of Pharo? That had me giving thanks. Pharo is splendid, and that will give us the best of both worlds: a stable base for development WITHOUT holding back development of Pharo itself.
I think Stéphane Ducasse may have completely misunderstood me. I wonder what he thinks my "choice" is? The only choice I'm aware of making is to continue being engaged with Pharo. (Hint: I am not on the Squeak mailing list. I don't even know if there is one any more.) The unpleasantly disparate nature of "Smalltalk" does not make *Pharo* a bad choice, it just means that anyone who develops in Pharo with the aim of deploying in VW is facing a much harder task than they might have been led to expect. I would also like to praise S.D. and his merry band for (a) the free Smalltalk books (b) the continuing series of books specifically about Pharo. Is there some way I can contribute to the Pharo book(let)s? I'm not too bad at proof-reading. On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 01:43, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr> wrote: > "Protect me from my friends I will deal with my ennemies." > > Pharo is Pharo. > > The smalltalk community likes to complain but we prefer to invent > the future. > For the record we are helping companies to DELIVER and we are > engaging > any people that want to invent the future with us. > > I have often the impression that having success is bad in this > wonderful communauty > > Horrido can’t you spend your energy in something more productive? > What a drag? > > Richard O’Keefe, this is a pity because we will never learn much > from your experience. > Anyway this is your choice but a strange one. > > I would love to have a type inferencer for Pharo. > > Sorry no time to spend more time on this. > > S. > > I did not do Pharo for ego I did it because else I would have join Lua or > Python > because Squeak and VW were killing my Smalltalk flame. > I prefer doing than talking. >
