There are no doubt a growing list of reasons, but the big one is usability. Squeak's (lack of) concept of input focus is a HUGE pain; its defaults of mouse buttons are weird. I could go on, but I prefer to use and (to the extent that I can) help to advance Pharo.
________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Levente Uzonyi [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 6:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] [squeak-dev] Morphic On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > 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. And why? Levente > > > > ________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
