Chers
amis, désolé pour l'anglais mais comme je voulais que tous les
principaux intéressés comprennent mon point de vue, j'ai choisi
l'anglais!
Okay guys, let's put things in perspective here...
Pharo isn't at war with Squeak and vice-versa... Just like any kid, it
just wants to "live it's own life" and somehow, somewhat, slowly
progress and become a little bit different from its parents, here
namely Squeak.
If find it weird that 2 Smalltalk implementations/communities, so close
to each other like Squeak and Pharo, go to great lengths at flaming
each other... Don't you find it weird that such discussions don't
happen between VisualWorks and Dolphin, between VisualAge and GNU
Smalltalk, etc ?
We're from the same family. Okay, we're all a bit different different
but, deep inside, we're so the same.
I'm a happy Smalltalker who's daily job involves VisualWorks, Dolphin
and VisualAge. In my spare time, I'm happy "squeaking" and
"pharoing". Can't we just respect each other's goals/ambitions/dreams
and try to find some communality and try to stay "not too far from each
other and benefit from each other" instead of starting a "cold war"
that will only leave us isolated, both in our own camps ? I'm
puzzled! What do I do if I like both? Choose my camp or abandon them
both ?
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Benoit St-Jean
Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean
Blog: lamneth.wordpress.com
A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero.
(Albert Einstein)