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Versioning actually tends to work better in Pharo/Squeak because once you have a version system dedicated to one language you're free to go ahead and understand
by flyinRyan 14y ago
Versioning actually tends to work better in Pharo/Squeak because once you have a version system dedicated to one language you're free to go ahead and understand the syntax of that language. I'm not sure how much of that they take advantage of today but there was talk several years ago of doing things like this.
- rjzzleep 14y agoi think you might be referring to this: http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2010/Talks/Monticello http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2010/Talks/Montice... i haven't really watched monticello 2, but last I remember you're essentially merging packages in and out of your vm. it really depends on what your goals are, and I guess the old discussion of visual and non visual programming also applies a little bit to the vm, non vm smalltalk discussion. personally i like to avoid magic whenever i can