Hi Doru, I understand your argument and I have heard it for years as to the reason not to make a programming language as good as what we have known how to do since the 1970s. I really don't have a very big dog in this fight (meaning that I don't care all that much whether these features end up in Smalltalk80), and I have felt that way for 20 years. I just wound up on this thread because I Googled myself in the context of working with another group on the development of advanced programming tools. I am much more interested in a programming environment that uses several iPad Pros and something like a ES2015+ Morphic framework that uses Force Touch plus Image Recognition on "real world passive objects" as a general approace to the "Use vs. Mention Problem" in graphical programming. The use versus mention problem is about not having any kind of a "run mode" vs. "design mode" switch. Having a finger press with pressure give you a number between: 0 and: 1 beats the hell out of shift+yellowButton hacks. :-)
It's funny how the transition between programming and meta-programming is always there. Were I to do anything in Smalltalk and the Compiler and Parser frameworks still supported the #compilerClass and #parserClass invocations at the right place I know what I need to do to give myself a huge leg up in expressibility and performance. cheers, -David Leibs -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Re-vwnc-Does-anyone-have-a-new-string-literal-tp4667088p4936873.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
