>>>>> "Ralph" == Ralph Johnson <johnson at cs.uiuc.edu> writes:

Ralph> People talk about language changes all the time, but they rarely
Ralph> happen.  If you want to change Squeak, it is easier to do it by
Ralph> changing tools or libraries, not by changing the language.

Agreed.

As I said a few months ago
in http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=12469219&framed=y

  I just don't like version creep in languages.  Smalltalk has remained
  relatively stable for nearly 3 decades.  Anything to disrupt that has got to
  meet a pretty high standard for me personally.

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