[ANSI-Smalltalk] proposed motto

[giorgio ferraris]

Hi,

what about this new change, following the Bruce last mail and everything
else:

 Smalltalk Portable Layer across (multiple) evolving implementations.

Multiple being optional (I don't know if it add enough to justify one more
word)


ciao

Giorgio

On Nov 18, 2007 10:21 PM, Bruce Badger <bwbadger at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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