Re: [Pharo-users] About "it's not pharo but smalltalk"

[Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users]

--- Begin Message --- Smalltalk didn't "fail". We just didn't have the CPU power at the time to achieve our dreams! And "Smalltalk is slow" was tagged forever besides the name...

2020-02-08 07:17, Ben Coman wrote:The aim of the advertised statement that Pharo-is-not-Smalltalk is to

avoid you "later" being surprised if it differs from ST-80.
A marketing strategy analogous to a "fail early" programming paradigm,
and avoid such arguments that try to shackle Pharo.

In practice, its probably many years before Pharo is any more
incompatible with Smalltalk than the incompatibilities between
existing Smalltalks.
But Smalltalk-backward-compatibility should not be one of your
tick-boxes to choose Pharo.

cheers -ben

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