[ANSI-Smalltalk] Welcome

[Bruce Badger]

On 14/11/2007, Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini at lu.unisi.ch> wrote:

> That said, if the process goes "the right way", the final voting could
> be only a formal step.  I would hope that the paying people would vote
> only on things on which there has been public consensus here.

I'll say "hear hear" to that.  By making the discussions as open as
possible everyone will see how any formal voting corresponds to the
sentiment of Smalltalkers as a whole.

The ANSI process will allow us to arrive at a workable consensus.
Inevitably there will be people who feel that the consensus (whatever
it happens to be) is weak or even wrong, but the alternative is to go
nowhere while we all stand still and argue.

The the aim is to make this an on-going process which delivers
something every 18 months to 2 years.  The standard must evolve (both
in form and process) in the light of the needs of people who *use*
Smalltalk.  The ANSI process is a reasonable mechanism of achieving
that.

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