In a message dated 9/3/98 2:05:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Allen_Wirfs-
Brock at Instantiations.com writes:

<< While the Squeak community is certainly free to do whatever it can agree
 upon (i.e. Squeak ~~ Smalltalk) it is probably worth noting that there is
 an ANSI standard definition of the core Smalltalk classes. Unless or until
 the Squeak community seriously reworks the entire Smalltalk selector
 vocabulary, confusion will probably be minimized if issues like this were
 resolved by following the consensus that was achieve by the commercial
 Smalltalk community. >>
 
Oh!  Alan ... You wouldn't want us to get bogged down with standards, now,
would you.
Isn't more fun to have a surprise everyday. Where would this mailing list be
if things  
were standardized--there wouldn't be anything to talk about.

BTW, When you say Squeak~~Smalltalk, What Smalltalk do you mean? This
community
has often been defined by who had the hottest (most closely watched, if you
will) 
Smalltalk of the day. At the moment, That _is_ Squeak. So maybe,
Squeak==Smalltalk.

I have close to a dozen Smalltalks running on my machine right now. I'll bet
that none of them is ANSI standard (sticking my neck out here a bit ...)

All kidding aside, how do you convince _experimenters_ that it is worth their
while to pay attention to such issues. Re-engineering the wheel seems to be a
greater _learning_ experience, to them.

Jerry.