Wonderful news. That may turn to be a real turning point for our beloved platform.
Kudos to you people!!!! Phil On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We are very happy to make the following announcement: > > > Lam Research, a leading supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and > services to the global semiconductor industry, is an experienced user of > the Smalltalk programming language. Smalltalk is a key component in Lam's > software control system for a broad range of the equipment it manufactures. > Tudor Girba is a leading member of the tools and environment development > effort in Pharo, having architected the Glamorous Toolkit for live > programming. Eliot Miranda is author of the Cog virtual machine that > underlies Pharo and other Smalltalk dialects. > > Lam has engaged Tudor and Eliot to explore potential enhancements in Lam's > use of Smalltalk. These enhancements range from running highly optimized > Smalltalk on low cost, single board computers, to enhancing Lam's Smalltalk > development practices with state-of-the-art live programming. During the > engagement, Tudor and Eliot successfully moved a key communication > component of the control system to Pharo. It was a challenging task aimed > at extending the reach of Lam’s system to the Pharo world including the > option of executing on ARM processors. > > > Cheers, > Tudor Girba, Eliot Miranda and Chris Thorgrimsson >
