Jumping in here, I used Squeak just a month or two ago to look at its serial port code, and something else IIRC. I much prefer Pharo.
________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Levente Uzonyi [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 5:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] [squeak-dev] Morphic On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Hilaire Fernandes wrote: > Le 20/09/2010 17:50, Levente Uzonyi a écrit : >> On Sat, 18 Sep 2010, Hilaire Fernandes wrote: >> >>> Really I don't understand CUIS long term objective, why this work is not >>> done in Pharo? They share the same vision. >> >> You could ask the same question with Pharo and Squeak instead of Cuis >> and Pharo, couldn't you? > > No, I can't. > > Pharo provides me a clear vision I can thrust: a Smalltalk environment > to build third party applications (ie makes my developer life easier). > Squeak does not provide me this thrust nor indication of that direction. When was the last time you used Squeak? > You can object it is matter of point of view, I will object it is a > matter of ressources you can allocate to write an application. Mine are > limited: I start writing DrGeo under Squeak, then I continued with > Pharo. I can really fell the difference: nice Widgets, cleaner system I > can understand, ease to integrate changes/improvements upstream. All in > all, I get the job done more nicely from my perspective. So you're using Pharo because of Polymorph? > > In the past, project got hudge resources (ie Sophie), this project > failed to give back to the community in a proper way. Was it because I don't really get this, which project are you talking about? Levente > Squeak defunct development model? I think so. IMHO, Pharo is trying to > fix that, and this is terribly important for a community. > > Now, Squeak model of development is may be different, so it may not > happen again, I don't know. > >> IMHO the reason is having total control and that's the same reason why >> Pharo was created. > > This does not matter. > > Hilaire > > -- > Dr. Geo, to discover geometry on Linux, Windows, MAC and XO > http://community.ofset.org/index.php/DrGeo > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
