Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

[Cameron Sanders via Pharo-dev]

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Seems that it was renamed?

Any hints of the tools I should look at to find the rank of something in a
distribution?

-cam

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Cameron Sanders via Pharo-dev <
pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> wrote:

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> From: Cameron Sanders <camsand...@aol.com>
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> Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 13:46:31 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)
> So was SciSmalltalk renamed?
> -cam
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> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Torsten Bergmann <asta...@gmx.de> wrote:
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>> It is understandable that over time an own identity for Pharo is helpful
>> (especially
>> because of the bad Smalltalk marketing, failures of commercial vendors in
>> the past, ...).
>> But also no one can not deny/hide the original roots of Pharo: the
>> primary foundations
>> with pure objects all the way down and messages and concepts just plain
>> Smalltalk.
>> Same for the basic class hierarchy, ...
>>
>> So this discussion is useless, especially because Pharo still lacks many
>> of the
>> features a portable, integratable environment should have (and that
>> Smalltalk
>> failed to deliver, at least in a common way). We should not confuse
>> wishes/dreams
>> with existing state of the technology and facts.
>>
>> Also why discuss about this now again? Did we discuss about renaming
>> SUnit into PUnit? No.
>> This just burns our cycles.
>>
>> For the marketing part there is a primary question to be answered: what
>> are the
>> (business) problems Pharo can solve. At least if we want Pharo to be
>> commercially
>> viable and get money (not only our own) into the community.
>> This is the part that was answered by other languages and technologies so
>> far and
>> the simple reason why they are used: even when they are ugly they solve a
>> problem.
>>
>> Nonetheless:
>> ============
>> If there is a rename I would suggest to rename "SciSmalltalk"
>> into "Polymath".
>>  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath
>>  - it can be applied to many subject areas
>>  - would be related to Math and science
>>  - would also have a "P" like Pharo in the name
>>  - Da Vinci was a polymath person, as well as Imhotep :)
>>
>> Bye
>> T.
>>
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