Pharo IS Smalltalk, whether you like it or not. my 2 cents: This thread is incredibly ridiculous IMHO. Is this becoming something like a religious argument, like church schisms in medieval times?
Pharo IS Smalltalk and that is good: That means everyone that is familiar with Smalltalk can use Pharo without any serious difficulties. For example, for learning, one can still use nearly everything from an "old" book like "Smalltalk By Example" by Alex Sharp from 1997 without any modifications whatsoever. It all works. I've ported .st files between different Smalltalk systems and it nearly always works without any modifications! (i don't use traits btw, because this is not Smalltalk as I know it and creates nasty inter-object dependencies, kind of "goto to attempt to multiple inheritance", but that's me :o) Apart from some minor deviations, Pharo conforms to nearly all Smalltalk rules, object hierarchy and syntax. The fundamental system classes throughout all Smalltalk implementations are virtually the same everywhere. Thank the gods for that. COMPATIBILITY. <- read this again if you like. Pharo excels in that the Pharo people did a lot of work in making the Pharo environment productive and a real pleasure to work with! but under the hood -even with the inclusion of new additions- it luckily still is Smalltalk. How can it be not: even the newer Pharo additions are in fact.. classes written in Smalltalk? Making too much distinctions and differences between various implementations and dialects of Smalltalk is not a good idea I think. You all want to promote Smalltalk? Then Stick Together As Smalltalkers no matter what version or dialect one is using! Does this sound alien to you, maybe? To, me personally, it doesn't make much difference because luckily most Smalltalk implementations are mostly quite similar, allowing me to switch if needed between (in arbitrary order , sigh) Squeak, Pharo, VisualWorks etc. without too much effort. In making too much distinctions, you are in fact dividing the Smalltalk community, which is bad in Smalltalk's fragile world. Smalltalk, indeed, OOP already has too much opposition of those sticking to other programming techniques etc. Kind Regards TedvG -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
