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[ANN] Live Robot Programming
by Johan Fabry Aug. 14, 2014

Aug. 14, 2014

Hi all, it’s with great joy that I can announce the project that my PhD student Miguel and I have been working on recently: Live Robot Programming, or LRP for short. LRP is a live programming language designed for the creation of the behavior layer of robots. It is fundamentally a nested state machine language built with robotics applications in mind, but it is not bound to a specific robot middleware, API or OS. Have a look at one minute of LRP programming to get an idea of what it is like: http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA Live programming is fun, and live robot programming even more so, as it brings all the advantages of live programming to programming a robot. You get direct manipulation of a running robot, and that’s just cool beyond words. As an example of LRP on a robot, this guy was programmed in LRP: http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA Note that you can use LRP ‘just’ for live programming nested state machines as well. More information on LRP is available on its website: http://pleiad.cl/LRP where you can also find download instructions. LRP is implemented in Pharo, and uses Roassal2 for the visualization of its state machines. We currently can steer the Lego Mindstorms EV3 and ROS robots, thanks to a small layer on top of the cool Pharo support that Jannik, Luc, Santiago and Noury are implementing at Douai. I am going to look into support for the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0esug in a few weeks. Miguel will be at ESUG next week (I cannot make it), and has a talk at the IWST workshop about LRP, in the morning session. I am sure that he will also be happy to give demos of LRP if you ask him to (but sadly without a robot). All feedback is welcome, and … have fun! ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile

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Submission problems fixed - ESUG 2014 REMINDER: 11th Innovation Technology Awards
by Jordi Delgado Aug. 10, 2014

Aug. 10, 2014

We're sorry but we realized that there was a misconfiguration that prevented the submission of award candidates. It has been fixed and now it works fine. ESUG 2014 REMINDER: 11th Innovation Technology Awards http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014/Innovation-Technology-Awards Have you written innovative Smalltalk? The developers of any Smalltalk-based software can enter by submitting a 3-5min video of their software. Entrants demo their systems in a session at the end of Monday August 18th 2014, after which the conference attendees vote. (A vote consists in providing a sorted list of 3 preferred pieces of software.) The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros. The results are announced in the Awards ceremony that is held during the social event. Applicants should provide the following information on the conference registration server. Once you have registered your personal info, an 'Awards' menu allows submitting your software. You can provide this information when you first register, or login again later and update your details. The registration server will open soon. You can start preparing your software right now though. Info to provide: Name of the software Licence information (free, shareware, or commercial) Name of the Smalltalk dialect used Name, Affiliation and Country of developers Besides, it would be great if the submission could include: URL for a video (3-5 min) showing a screencast / demo of the software URL for downloading the software or at least a runnable demo Deadline: *August 15th* Any Smalltalker can apply (students, companies, ...). The presented piece of code/software should be written in Smalltalk or directly support Smalltalk (e.g. Smalltalk VM). All Smalltalk dialects are accepted. The applicant should be "strongly related" to the presented code, be it as an author, as owner of the copyright/copyleft, or as an official representative of the copyright/copyleft owner. Bests Jordi

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Only one week left!! - ESUG 2014 REMINDER: 11th Innovation Technology Awards
by Jordi Delgado Aug. 8, 2014

Aug. 8, 2014

ESUG 2014 REMINDER: 11th Innovation Technology Awards http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2014/Innovation-Technology-Awards Have you written innovative Smalltalk? The developers of any Smalltalk-based software can enter by submitting a 3-5min video of their software. Entrants demo their systems in a session at the end of Monday August 18th 2014, after which the conference attendees vote. (A vote consists in providing a sorted list of 3 preferred pieces of software.) The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros. The results are announced in the Awards ceremony that is held during the social event. Applicants should provide the following information on the conference registration server. Once you have registered your personal info, an 'Awards' menu allows submitting your software. You can provide this information when you first register, or login again later and update your details. The registration server will open soon. You can start preparing your software right now though. Info to provide: Name of the software Licence information (free, shareware, or commercial) Name of the Smalltalk dialect used Name, Affiliation and Country of developers Besides, it would be great if the submission could include: URL for a video (3-5 min) showing a screencast / demo of the software URL for downloading the software or at least a runnable demo Deadline: *August 15th* Any Smalltalker can apply (students, companies, ...). The presented piece of code/software should be written in Smalltalk or directly support Smalltalk (e.g. Smalltalk VM). All Smalltalk dialects are accepted. The applicant should be "strongly related" to the presented code, be it as an author, as owner of the copyright/copyleft, or as an official representative of the copyright/copyleft owner. Bests, Jordi

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SLE 2014 - Call for Participation
by Craig Anslow Aug. 7, 2014

Aug. 7, 2014

======================================= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 7th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) 2014 Vasteras, Sweden, September 15-16, 2014 http://www.sleconf.org/2014/ Co-located with: 29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2014) 13th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts and Experiences (GPCE 2014) --------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES SLE workshops: 14 September, 2014 Conference: 15-16 September, 2014 --------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE Software Language Engineering (SLE) is the application of systematic, disciplined, and measurable approaches to the development, use, deployment, and maintenance of software languages. The term "software language" is used broadly, and includes: general-purpose programming languages; domain-specific languages (e.g. BPMN, Simulink, Modelica); modeling and metamodeling languages (e.g. SysML and UML); data models and ontologies (e.g. XML-based and OWL-based languages and vocabularies). --------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST The overall principle of SLE is to be broad-minded and inclusive about relevance and scope. We solicit high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions to tools, techniques, and frameworks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Tools and methods for software language design and extension (incl. meta-languages, meta-tools, language workbenches) - Generative approaches, transformation and transformation languages, code generation - Techniques for analysing software language descriptions - Techniques for software language reuse, evolution and managing variation (syntactic/semantic) within language families - Integration and coordination of software languages and tools - Engineering Domain-Specific Languages (for modeling, simulating, generation, description, checking) - Novel applications and/or empirical studies on any aspect of SLE (development, use, deployment, and maintenance of software languages) - Cross-fertilization of different technological spaces (e.g. modelware, grammarware, etc) --------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKER Title: From Language Engineering to Viewpoint Engineering Speaker: Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim Abstract: As software systems increase in size and complexity, and are expected to cope with ever more quantities of information from ever more sources, there is an urgent and growing need for a more view-oriented approach to software engineering. Views allow stakeholders to see exactly the right information, at exactly the right time, in a way that best matches their capabilities and goals. However, this is only possible if the information is represented in the optimal languages (i.e. domain- and purpose-specific), with the necessary context information and the optimal manipulation/editing features - that is, if information is viewed from the optimal viewpoints. Rather than merely engineering languages, therefore, software engineers in the future will need to engineer viewpoints, which augment language definitions (e.g. meta-models, syntax ...) with context information (e.g. elision, location, perspective ...) and user-interaction information (e.g. editing pallets, view manipulation services ...). In this talk Colin Atkinson will outline the issues faced in supporting the flexible and efficient engineering of viewpoints and will present some key foundations of a fundamentally view-oriented approach to software engineering --------------------------------------------------------- ACCEPTED PAPERS - A SAT-based Debugging Tool for State Machines and Sequence Diagrams, Petra Kaufmann, Martin Kronegger, Andreas Pfandler, Martina Seidl and Magdalena Widl - The Moldable Debugger: a Framework for Developing Domain-Specific Debuggers, Andrei Chis, Tudor Girba and Oscar Nierstrasz - Streamlining Control Flow Graph Construction with DCFlow, Mark Hills - Bounded Islands, Jan Kurs, Mircea Lungu and Oscar Nierstrasz - Origin Tracking in Attribute Grammars, Kevin Williams and Eric Van Wyk - Dynamic Scope Discovery for Model Transformations, Maris Jukss, Clark Verbrugge, Daniel Varro and Hans Vangheluwe - Model Checking of CTL-Extended OCL Specifications, Sebastian Gabmeyer, Robert Bill, Martina Seidl and Petra Kaufmann - Simple, efficient, sound-and-complete combinator parsing for all context-free grammars, using an oracle, Tom Ridge - Towards User-Friendly Projectional Editors, Markus Voelter, Janet Siegmund, Thorsten Berger and Bernd Kolb - Eco: a Language Composition Editor, Lukas Diekmann and Laurence Tratt - Unifying and Generalizing Relations in Role-Based Data Modeling and Navigation, Daco Harkes and Eelco Visser - ProMoBox: A Framework for Generating Domain-Specific Property Languages, Bart Meyers, Romuald Deshayes, Levi Lucio, Eugene Syriani, Manuel Wimmer and Hans Vangheluwe - A Metamodel Family for Role-based Modeling and Programming Languages, Thomas Kühn, Max Leuthäuser, Sebastian Götz, Uwe Aßmann and Christoph Seidl - fUML as an Assembly Language for Model Transformation, Massimo Tisi, Frédéric Jouault, Jérôme Delatour, Zied Saidi and Hassene Choura - Evaluating the usability of a visual notation when developing new feature models, Aleksandar Jaksic, Robert France, Philippe Collet and Sudipto Ghosh - Respect Your Parents: How Attribution and Rewriting Can Get Along, Tony Sloane, Matthew Roberts and Leonard Hamey - Monto: A Disintegrated Development Environment, Tony Sloane, Matthew Roberts, Scott Buckley and Shaun Muscat - AIOCJ: A Choreographic Framework for Safe Adaptive Distributed Applications, Mila Dalla Preda, Maurizio Gabbrielli, Saverio Giallorenzo, Ivan Lanese and Jacopo Maurio - Test-data generation for Xtext with Xtextgen, Johannes Härtel, Lukas Härtel and Ralf Laemmel --------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOPS ITSLE - This workshop explores SLE concepts from an industrial perspective. http://www.sleconf.org/2014/ITSLE.html Parsing@SLE - This workshop was organized the first time in 2013 and brought together a wide variety of people intereseted in parsing. http://www.sleconf.org/2014/Parsing-at-SLE.html --------------------------------------------------------- AWARDS - Best paper. Award for best overall paper, as determined by the PC chairs based on the recommendations of the programme committee. - Best reviewer. Award for best reviewer, as determined by the PC chairs using feedback from the authors. Award Sponsors: Google, Gemoc, itemis --------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION Early registration ends August 15! http://www.sleconf.org/2014/Registration.html --------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT For any questions or concerns about the call for paper, please contact the program co-chairs at: pcchairs(a)sleconf.org --------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL COMMITTEE CHAIR Jurgen Vinju, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes, France David J. Pearce, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand PROGRAM COMMITTEE Emilie Balland, INRIA, France Tony Clark, Middlesex University, UK Zinovy Diskin, McMaster University / University of Waterloo, Canada Martin Erwig, Oregon State University, USA Anne Etien, University of Lille, France Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Jean-Marie Favre, University of Grenoble, France Robert France, Colorado State University, USA Andy Gill, University of Kansas, USA Martin Gogolla, University of Bremen, Germany Pieter Van Gorp, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil Görel Hedin, Lund University, Sweden Markus Herrmannsdoerfer, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany Jean-Marc Jézéquel, University of Rennes, France Thomas Kuehne, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Ralf Laemmel, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany Peter Mosses, Swansea University, UK Sean Mcdirmid, Microsoft, China Kim Mens, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia Pierre-Alain Muller, University of Haute-Alsace, France Nathaniel Nystrom, University of Lugano, Switzerland Klaus Ostermann, University of Marburg, Germany Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Bern, Switzerland Richard Paige, University of York, UK Fiona Polack, University of York, UK Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Davide Di Ruscio, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy João Saraiva, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Bran Selic, Malina Software Corp., Canada Jim Steel, University of Queensland, Australia Tijs Van Der Storm, Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, The Netherlands Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase, Finland Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA Steffen Zschaler, King's College London, UK WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION CHAIR Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA PANEL ORGANIZATION CHAIR Ralf Lammel, Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Germany PUBLICATION CHAIR Olivier Barais, University of Rennes, France PUBLICITY CHAIRS Craig Anslow, University of Calgary, Canada (general publicity) Tijs van der Storm, Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, The Netherlands (social media) Davy Landman, Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, The Netherlands (web) LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR Ivica Crnkovic, Malardalen University, Sweden ======================================= — Kind regards, Craig Craig Anslow, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Computer Science University of Calgary, Canada T: 403 210 8159 E: craig.anslow(a)ucalgary.ca W: http://anslow.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/

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Jobs and internships at HRWorks
by Stéphane Ducasse Aug. 6, 2014

Aug. 6, 2014

Hi HRWorks is looking for some smalltalkers…so pass this information around. Stef HRworks: Get on board as graduate HRworks is the pioneer in software for service solutions in Germany. As early as 1998, HRworks developed a web-based business software for the cloud. With this software solution, companies can bill travel expenses and manage absences and equipment. More than 800 customers such as McDonald’s, Tom Tailor, Lexmark or the Warner Music Group rely on HRworks every day. Have you already completed your studies and are looking for your first professional experience? After our “boot camp” you will take responsibility for minor components and tasks. You will gain experience and gradually you will be entrusted with more demanding tasks, depending upon your abilities. What do we expect from you? • That you enjoy programming • Smalltalk is your passion • Good spoken English What does HRworks offer you? • An open, motivated & efficient team that enjoy working together • Working on a unique application architecture • Optimum working conditions, such as the open-space concept • Fruit & drinks; in particular, as much coffee as you need • Above-average pay What next? Are you interested? Then we look forward to receiving your application by email to job(a)hrworks.de. More information: www.hrworks.de/career/ Any questions? José-Simón Gerónimo, +49 761 47954-12, job(a)hrworks.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HRworks: Internship HRworks is the pioneer in software for service solutions in Germany. As early as 1998, HRworks developed a web-based business software for the cloud. With this software solution, companies can bill travel expenses and manage absences and equipment. More than 800 customers such as McDonald’s, Tom Tailor, Lexmark or the Warner Music Group rely on HRworks every day. Are you a student looking for an internship from 5 to 6 months? What do we expect from you? • That you enjoy programming • Smalltalk is your passion • Good spoken English What tasks will you be given? You will develop new features and functions and improve our internal components and development processes. All features that you subsequently implement will be used by hundred thousand employees in prestigious companies. What does HRworks offer you? • An open, motivated & efficient team that enjoy working together • Working on a unique application architecture • Optimum working conditions, such as the open-space concept • Fruit & drinks; in particular, as much coffee as you need • Above-average pay • A student room What next? Are you interested? Then we look forward to receiving your application by email to job(a)hrworks.de. More information: www.hrworks.de/career/ Any questions? José-Simón Gerónimo, +49 761 47954-12, job(a)hrworks.de

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Jobs and internships at HRWorks
by Stéphane Ducasse Aug. 6, 2014

Aug. 6, 2014

Hi Smalltalkers HRWorks sponsors ESUG since a couple of years and it is looking for smart smalltalkers. Stef

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"Pharo is Smalltalk inspired"
by Helge Nowak Aug. 5, 2014

Aug. 5, 2014

Dear Pharoers, I stumbled upon Doru’s (BTW excellent, as usual) presentation on Live Objects at NDC 2014. In there he states “Pharo is Smalltalk inspired. … we want to point ourselves that we are Smalltalk inspired because we want to move towards the future”. This implies three things: 1. Pharo is NOT Smalltalk 2. All Smalltalks are not moving towards the future 3. The Pharo community wants to get divorced from the community that gave them birth I am wondering whether this is indeed the official position of the Pharo community? And how the Smalltalkers think about it. Cheers Helge

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Fwd: [vwnc] CloudShoppie App contest Done with Smalltalk. Kindly Vote
by Stéphane Ducasse Aug. 5, 2014

Aug. 5, 2014

Begin forwarded message: > From: Sreenath <gk.sreenath(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [vwnc] CloudShoppie App contest Done with Smalltalk. Kindly Vote > Date: 29 May 2014 08:50:59 GMT+2 > To: vwnc(a)cs.uiuc.edu > > Hi All > > http://letsbuildkaec.challengepost.com/submissions/23789-cloud-shoppie > > This is an iOS/Android application with server developed in Pharo > Smalltalk(Seaside-REST) where our company Signos Software Solutions has > participated. There is a video explaining the application and a link to vote > for the application. > > We are a start up with a team of 8 smalltalkers and would greatly appreciate > your valuable support and feedback. > > Thanks In Advance. > > Best Regards, > Sreenath > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/CloudShoppie-App-contest-Done-with-Smalltalk-Kindly-V… > Sent from the VisualWorks mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > vwnc mailing list > vwnc(a)cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc

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ESUG 2014 REMINDER: 11th Innovation Technology Awards
by Jordi Delgado Aug. 2, 2014

Aug. 2, 2014

ESUG 2014 REMINDER: 11th Innovation Technology Awards http://esug.org/Conferences/2014/Innovation-Technology-Awards Have you written innovative Smalltalk? The developers of any Smalltalk-based software can enter by submitting a 3-5min video of their software. Entrants demo their systems in a session at the end of Monday August 18th 2014, after which the conference attendees vote. (A vote consists in providing a sorted list of 3 preferred pieces of software.) The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros. The results are announced in the Awards ceremony that is held during the social event. Applicants should provide the following information on the conference registration server. Once you have registered your personal info, an 'Awards' menu allows submitting your software. You can provide this information when you first register, or login again later and update your details. The registration server will open soon. You can start preparing your software right now though. Info to provide: Name of the software Licence information (free, shareware, or commercial) Name of the Smalltalk dialect used Name, Affiliation and Country of developers Besides, it would be great if the submission could include: URL for a video (3-5 min) showing a screencast / demo of the software URL for downloading the software or at least a runnable demo Deadline: August 15th Any Smalltalker can apply (students, companies, ...). The presented piece of code/software should be written in Smalltalk or directly support Smalltalk (e.g. Smalltalk VM). All Smalltalk dialects are accepted. The applicant should be "strongly related" to the presented code, be it as an author, as owner of the copyright/copyleft, or as an official representative of the copyright/copyleft owner. Bests, Jordi

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Re: [Esug-list] "Pharo is Smalltalk inspired"
by Richard Sargent Aug. 1, 2014

Aug. 1, 2014

In my opinion, this entire thread is based on an "argument from a false premise". "Pharo is not Smalltalk. Pharo is Smalltalk-inspired." My son is not me. He is inspired by me. Why would I want him to be "just like me"? My ambition is that he will be better than me. He has grown and left home. Does that mean he has divorced me? He doesn't want to be a programmer. Is that a bad thing? I feel like a family friend, watching a child grow into an adult. There is a sense of pride - vicarious - in watching Pharo's growth. The is a sense of anticipation of what Pharo's future will be. Am I concerned that this child will repudiate beliefs and behaviours I hold dear? Not in the least! It comes from good stock and it's being raised by a good and caring family. Go, Pharo! Fly! Show us what you can be. ----------------- Can we stop discussing "When did you stop beating your wife?" and resume discussing what Pharo should be (or become)? -------- Original message -------- From: Helge Nowak <hknowak(a)yahoo.de> Date:2014/07/31 08:29 (GMT-08:00) To: Tudor Girba <tudor(a)tudorgirba.com> Cc: ESUG <esug-list(a)lists.esug.org>,pharo-consortium@lists.gforge.inria.fr,pharo-business@lists.pharo.org Subject: Re: [Esug-list] "Pharo is Smalltalk inspired" Dear Stef and Doru, what Doru is saying seems contradictory to what Stef does (or I do not understand one, or the both of you correctly): Doru says: "Pharo is not Smalltalk. Pharo is Smalltalk-inspired." Whereas Stef says "Pharo is to reinvent Smalltalk" and "I prefer that my students find a job in “Smalltalk”". From which I take that Stef sees himself and Pharo as part of the Smalltalk community. Something I had hoped to hear ;-) I am with Kent Pitman: "Smalltalk" is not technically defined but by the (sub-)communities and their values. The development of Smalltalk will never stop, each dialect may take its own path yet it will stay "Smalltalk" regardless of what you name it. Only if one thinks that being part of the Smalltalk community doesn't serve him/her well he/she will leave it. I don't see how Pharo and its community did a departure from the Smalltalk values and its overall community. And I hope this will stay that way. Cheers Helge Von: Tudor Girba <tudor(a)tudorgirba.com> An: Helge Nowak <hknowak(a)yahoo.de> CC: "pharo-business(a)lists.pharo.org" <pharo-business(a)lists.pharo.org>; "pharo-consortium(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr" <pharo-consortium(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr>; ESUG <esug-list(a)lists.esug.org> Gesendet: 17:05 Donnerstag, 31.Juli 2014 Betreff: Re: [Esug-list] "Pharo is Smalltalk inspired" Hi, The official Pharo statement is clearly stated on the http://pharo.org/ webpage. This topic has been (re)discussed recently spawned by my original post on Pharo is Pharo: http://www.tudorgirba.com/blog/pharo-is-pharo You can choose to see in my words what you wish. I will choose to not fight it. I did it before and it lead nowhere. I will only state that we clearly want to position Pharo to build a future that we do not know at this point in time. Cheers, Doru Cheers, Doru On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Helge Nowak <hknowak(a)yahoo.de> wrote: Dear Pharoers, I stumbled upon Doru’s (BTW excellent, as usual) presentation on Live Objects at NDC 2014. In there he states “Pharo is Smalltalk inspired. … we want to point ourselves that we are Smalltalk inspired because we want to move towards the future”. This implies three things: Pharo is NOT Smalltalk All Smalltalks are not moving towards the future The Pharo community wants to get divorced from the community that gave them birth I am wondering whether this is indeed the official position of the Pharo community? And how the Smalltalkers think about it. Cheers Helge _______________________________________________ Esug-list mailing list Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org -- http://www.tudorgirba.com/ "Every thing has its own flow"

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