[ANSI-Smalltalk] proposed motto

[Bruce Badger]

On 19/11/2007, Marco Qualizza <mlq at codedaemon.com> wrote:

>    I think that emphasizing the unification of Smalltalk dialects (while at the same time re-enforcing the fact that this will not interfere with their continued evolution) is a Good Thing.

Unify : Make or become uniform or whole

My understanding of the fear of the Squeakers is that they do not want
to lose the identity or vitality of Squeak.  The word unification
could be taken to hint at just that.  I think we should be encouraging
vitality and variety among Smalltalk dialects while having a standard
that defines a API which one can expect to find in all dialects.  My
feeling is that variety will lead to the invention of even more cool
Smalltalk stuff (which may then find it's way into the standard in
years to come) - unification could stifle that.

Should we have a vote on which motto we like?  How about if we give a
week more for people to put up suggestions and then have another week
for voting?  Doodle seemed to work well for the  mailing list vote, so
we could use that again.

All the best,
    Bruce
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