[ANSI-Smalltalk] proposed motto

[giorgio ferraris]

the Eliot's second is quite short:

  Portable Smalltalk across Evolving implementations

and says almost everything to smalltalkers, including squeakers.


But we have also the outside word, where this could be an opportunity to
demonstrate that Smalltalk has several dialects, and this is a strength, not
a weakness, because:

Portability (if we get it...) allow you to move
Differences allow you to chose, and allow you to experiment.

The Web is just lowering the differences between dialects, Seaside ad Aida
are quite cross dialect, so, for a web point of view , we can almost already
not care.

Some variation of Eliot's one could help on the second goal to? Or evolving
is enough for transmitting the message? Or we don't want to care about the
outside word (at least in the scope of the ANSI project)


giorgio



On Nov 18, 2007 12:06 AM, Bruce Badger <bwbadger at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17/11/2007, Peter van Rooijen <peter at vanrooijen.com> wrote:
> > 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).
>
> I understood Ralph to be saying that we ought to allay the fears of
> some Squeakers that standards work means placing a limit on the
> vitality and creativity of the Squeak community.  Hence the longer
> motos such as Eliot's (which I also happen to rather like btw).
>
> Peter, are you saying that we should not ignore the Squeakers apparent
> concerns, or address them in a different way?
>
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