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What is the purpose of this? Education? It sounds like yet another reinvention of Lisp.

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You're being downvoted because saying it's some imitation or reinvention of Lisp is a gross misrepresentation. Pharo's lineage takes it back to Smalltalk-80 beginning in 1976, at the very least.

codr4|7 years ago

If I remember correctly at least Alan Kay openly admits being very inspired by Lisp. Unfortunately the limitations/walled gardens they chose to impose in the name of simplification, everything is an object etc, had us running in circles for a long long time. My guess is it was picked up by managements for the same reasons as Cobol, Java, Go etc.

another-cuppa|7 years ago

Well it doesn't say that. I just said it sounds like a reinvention of Lisp because that's what it sounded like to me from what it says on the homepage.

justbaker|7 years ago

Actually, its an IDE for modern “Smalltalk” development. Pharo has a few extensions vs Smalltalk-80.

tyingq|7 years ago

It is a little odd that the homepage doesn't say Smalltalk on it anywhere.

chess_buster|7 years ago

I guess you're trolling

another-cuppa|7 years ago

Trolling by asking a question to which I wasn't able to find answer after a good few minutes on the website?