[ANSI-Smalltalk] proposed motto

Peter van Rooijen peter at vanrooijen.com
Sat Nov 17 15:12:10 GMT 2007


My preference for a motto would probably go to something very short and  
simple such as:

"Smalltalk Application Portability"

which has to me the feel both of an ambition (as something to strive for)  
and of a goal (as something that can actually be achieved).

Thanks, Peter

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:16:23 +0100, Eliot Miranda  
<eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:

> How's about evolution?
>
>     Making Smalltalk applications portable without limiting Smalltalk
> implementation evolution
> or
>     Portable Smalltalk across evolving implementations
>
> On Nov 16, 2007 7:05 AM, Bruce Badger <bwbadger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 16/11/2007, Ralph Johnson <johnson at cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> I'd be tempted by "Smalltalk innovation" if the word innovation we not
>> so badly polluted.
>>
>> How about Smalltalk creativity or Smalltalk inventiveness ...
>>
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