Er, maybe I'll rant here since it' seems to me this the day for that. Perhaps flavoured a bit with
Ralph's accidental post about cilantro.
Should we not be talking about the Smalltalk 2010 ANSI proposal? Why the lock in to the
Smalltalk ANSI INCITS 319-1998 (R2002) standard?
I think this fits into Stephane's comment about moving forward.
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On 2010-02-11, at 1:51 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote:
>> Now why don;t people want a better smalltalk?
>
> Sure, everybody wants a better Smalltalk.
>
> The ANSI standard does not make scripting impossible, it does not
> forbid first class instance variables, it does not forbid a MOP or a
> module system.
>
> The ANSI standard only talks about the basic Smalltalk syntax,
> Collections, Magnitudes, Streams. That's it. I don't think it is
> limiting in any way.
>
> Lukas
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