Sometimes Pharo is criticized for not displaying more prominently its Smalltalk roots on its site and promotional materials. IMHO, I think the Pharo team has good reason to do so. So far it is mostly compatible with Squeak, but breaking backward compatibility is left on the table as a possibility in the future. So they applied the lesson Perl folks had to learn the hard way, until they perceived it was better to recognize Perl6 as a new language and rename it to Raku. When developing new things, calling them by old names sets expectations and causes people to make lots of implicit assumptions.
Qem|3 years ago
pjmlp|3 years ago