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Re: [Help-smalltalk] GNU sed 4.2.2 released, and a rant from the maintai
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Help-smalltalk] GNU sed 4.2.2 released, and a rant from the maintainer |
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Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:50:56 +0100 |
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Il 23/12/2012 23:58, Mehul Sanghvi ha scritto:
> Squeak and Pharo are good, but GNU Smalltalk does serve a purpose. It
> is intended for scripting purposes, which neither Squeak and Pharo, as
> far as I know, can do since they are tightly bound to full blown GUI
> environments.
Squeak and Pharo's FSF-freeness is undoubtedly a good thing, but a
Smalltalk like gst still has its place. The Javascript-based Amber
Smalltalk is much more similar to gst and perhaps could grow enough
functionality to be a replacement.
Paolo
> Paolo also provides lots of help for newbies (like
> myself), so I hope he doesn't give up on GNU Smalltalk. Forking I don't
> believe would be
> the right way to go. Jenkins/Hudson ? OpenOffice/LibreOffice ?
> Nah, I wouldn't want that for GNU Smalltalk.