Em 29-06-2009 16:03, Stéphane Rollandin escreveu:
>> Progress and backwards compatibility are fundamentally opposing 
>> forces, those insisting on backwards compatibility are the ones 
>> preventing progress. 
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> Because they are opposing forces, we need to balance them. What you 
> say could be completed with: those insisting in progress are the ones 
> preventing actual software to be implemented.
>
> What is the point of progress if you can't harvest it ? Don't you see 
> the drawbacks of a permanently moving target ?
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> Stef
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While I was working at the Secretaria de Estado da Educação de São Paulo 
that was the way some people found to prevent any action to be 
effective: if something is not excellent/optimum, then it is not worth 
to be considered. And in this search for excellence they didn't have 
even reasonable/average solutions.

I cannot figure how Pharo will deal with the problem of neglecting 
backwards compatibility let's say 5 years from now. Will they deploy 
only excellent software???? Nothing will get obsolete???? They'll rise 
funds to pay people to fix things every time something gets broken by a 
new non-backwards compatible image???? Will people be forced to work 
with paleolithic images????

About l&f, squeak-dev has a nice one and professional enough.