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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Eliot,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>How about World. You can shut down the
World file and then start it back up and everything still lives. (It’s
already part of the Squeak lexicon). What are you doing? You are taking a
snapshot of the World. You are producing an image of the World: The Smalltalk World.
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Ron Teitelbaum<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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[mailto:squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Eliot Miranda<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, March 12, 2010 12:59
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> The general-purpose Squeak
developers list; Pharo Development; vwnc NC<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [squeak-dev] image
overload</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> I'm sure Im opening an old topic but anyway, as I
was riding the train to work today I saw a shop called "Audio Images"
and it struck me how overloaded the term image is, and how poor a term for the
contents of the image file Smalltalk image is. What's in the image is a
snapshot of... almost the entire system (minus platform-specific virtual
machine and possibly minus sources). So Smalltalk system file would be a
far better term and stsys a more unique file extension (and according to
Wikipedia STS is unused too). I can imagine that changing form image
would be hugely expensive in documentation terms (docs, websites, workspaces,
etc, etc). But I can at least dream of a better term.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>P.S. I know, wasting one's time worrying about names.
Almost as bad as worrying about colours<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>"And the wheel," said the
Captain, "What about this wheel thingy? It sounds a terribly interesting
project."</span></font></span><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
<span class=apple-style-span>"Ah," said the marketing girl,
"Well, we're having a little difficulty there."</span><br>
<span class=apple-style-span>"Difficulty?" exclaimed Ford.
"Difficulty? What do you mean, difficulty? It's the single simplest machine
in the entire Universe!"</span><br>
<span class=apple-style-span>The marketing girl soured him with a look.</span><br>
<span class=apple-style-span>"Alright, Mr. Wiseguy," she said,
"if you're so clever, you tell us what colour it should be."</span></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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