On Dec 7, 2013, at 12:23 AM, Nicolai Hess <nicolaih...@web.de> wrote:
> This seems to be a good place to introduce myself. > > My Name is Nicolai Hess, > I follow the squeak (and pharo) community for some years (~10). > (Not as an *active* member in that time, but a little bit more the last > days:-) > I am a software developer, most time working with c++ and java. > Every time I start to dive into smalltalk world (again), > even if all i have done are bugreports or small bugfixes, > it impressed me how much more fun it makes. yes and welcome on board. It can really change your life :) > > Looking at smalltalks history I was always deeply impressed about all > its development and *inventions*. > (And a bit sad, it is not as recognized as it > could be, and seeing how others again reinventing these things.) we should continue to invent because we have some advantages :) > It is great to see how pharo and the community moves on. > Thank you all. > > Nicolai > > > > 2013/12/6 Torsten Bergmann <asta...@gmx.de> > Maybe others noticed the same: > > - the numbers of closed issues is amazing(see the news on the homepage) > - Pharo3.0 is already really usable and a pleasure to work with > - more and more nice projects appear on STHub and elsewhere > - more and more Pharo projects use continuous integration > - most projects and packages are loadable from the config browser and other > places without > conflicting with each other > - there is so much activity regarding Pharo these days on mailinglists, > bug-tracker, > twitter, conferences, blogs, stackoverflow, github ... it becomes hard to > follow > but this is a good sign > - I see more and more fixes and improvements already as an update coming in > before > I really realize that an own bug is needed because it improves the > situation > - more and more new names appear on the dev and user mailinglist which is a > good > sign that there is growing interest > - Pharo is on the right track and I like to be on the train > > Step by step it goes... > > Bye > T. > > > > >
