[ANSI-Smalltalk] proposed motto

[Ralph Johnson]

I thought of a possible motto for the ANSI standardization group:

  Making Smalltalk applications portable without limiting innovations
in Smalltalk implementations

Or "Smalltalk VMs".  Or "Smalltalk programming environments".  Or
maybe just "Smalltalk".  I am not sure about the last two words.

The purpose of the original standard was to bring respectability to
Smalltalk, to remove a barrier for its adaptation in large companies.
Portability was nice, but I don't think it was their major goal.

I think that this motto would remove a lot of the objections I have
seen on the Squeak mailing list.  Not that I care much about
nay-sayers, but it shows that they don't understand the purpose of a
standard, and I think this motto explains it.

-Ralph