Hi, <br><br>what about this new change, following the Bruce last mail and everything else:<br><br> Smalltalk Portable Layer across (multiple) evolving implementations.<br><br>Multiple being optional (I don't know if it add enough to justify one more word)
<br><br><br>ciao<br><br>Giorgio<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 18, 2007 10:21 PM, Bruce Badger <<a href="mailto:bwbadger@gmail.com">bwbadger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 19/11/2007, Marco Qualizza <<a href="mailto:mlq@codedaemon.com">mlq@codedaemon.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> 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.
<br><br></div>Unify : Make or become uniform or whole<br><br>My understanding of the fear of the Squeakers is that they do not want<br>to lose the identity or vitality of Squeak. The word unification<br>could be taken to hint at just that. I think we should be encouraging
<br>vitality and variety among Smalltalk dialects while having a standard<br>that defines a API which one can expect to find in all dialects. My<br>feeling is that variety will lead to the invention of even more cool<br>
Smalltalk stuff (which may then find it's way into the standard in<br>years to come) - unification could stifle that.<br><br>Should we have a vote on which motto we like? How about if we give a<br>week more for people to put up suggestions and then have another week
<br>for voting? Doodle seemed to work well for the mailing list vote, so<br>we could use that again.<br><br>All the best,<br> Bruce<br><font color="#888888">--<br></font><div class="Ih2E3d">Make the most of your skills - with OpenSkills
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