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Re:Pharo 9 by a2800276 on Thursday July 15, 2021 @10:16AM (#27844975)
Interesting, thank you. It still seems weird to me, though. I feel Smalltalk is mostly mentioned with positive connotations (as opposed to, say Cobol) and would guess more people have heard of Smalltalk than Pharo and it would help orientation. So I was assuming something nefarious :)

Is there an overview of the differences somewhere?

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Re:Pharo 9 by xkriva11 on Thursday July 15, 2021 @10:37AM (#27845270)
I sometimes ask young programmers or people interested in old computers if they know Smalltalk and what they think of it. Try it too, you might be surprised at the results.

I don't know of any such list of differences, and I don't think it's of much use either.There is ANSI Smalltalk, which is very limited and most implementations go well beyond its scope, so you have to compare each implementation separately anyway.

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