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> On Jul 22, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
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>> I love that scenario :)
>> This is great that powerful tools let us imagine and build solutions that would not be possible
>> before. Power to imagination…
>>
> And it is an example for a building block that helps to build things. Things that are *impossible*
> without it.
>
> Another way to view Fuel is that of a scientific experiment: We empirically study the existing
> (ImageSegment). Without pre-concived notions to replace it! (We actually thought ImageSegments
> would turn out to be the greatest thing ever and just needed some documentation/more understandable
> implementation).
> -> You study the existing
> -> You claim that you can do better
> -> You do better.
>
> And then the next step is *extremeley* importnat:
>
> -> You prove that it is better for real by *replacing* ALL the existing subsystems that do the same.
>
> That last part is very essential: in the end, you often see that it is actually not that easy.
>
> So *replacing* is important. The other thing important is to realize that it enables things that are impossible
> without.
>
> There are people that claim that instead of Pharo, what we should have done is to just do our research on
> top of an unchanged Squeak. (While not even trying to improve Squeak itself).
>
> But I really wonder... just project Pharo some more years in the Future. Will that what we will be able to do
> even be *thinkable* in the context of an unchanged Squeak 3.8?
>
> Marcus
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> Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de
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