Hi, > On Sep 25, 2016, at 6:16 PM, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > > yes all I did is to open the sources file in a text editor and see which one > was the last line, that means it includes empty lines too. So 500k sound > normal to me. > > Personally as a user I rarely care about the size because I rarely care to > modify the existing image . For me its more important to have more features > that make my work easier. > > Also bare in mind in case of Ruby as with Python, that there is A LOT of C > involved which is a very verbose language and of course that includes VM and > low level parts that in the case of Pharo are not included in the image.
I only counted the rb files, not the C ones (see the script) :) Doru > On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 4:46 PM Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > On Sep 25, 2016, at 2:01 PM, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > Totally agree with the slides apart from "Pharo is Small" , the syntax may > > be but the whole environment last time I checked was 700k lines of code > > which is huge for a dynamic language. Of course that is far from bad at > > least for me, I love powerful environments over minimal solutions. > > > Just for reference, Pharo 5 has: > Smalltalk allClasses sumNumbers: #linesOfCode “515500" > > This is still a lot, but we should compare against a language + IDE + > compiler + collections + version management system + project dependency > system + several significant other libraries. This might turn out to be quite > small in the end :). > > But, one thing I would stress is that "Pharo is Uniform”. This is what in the > end makes it seem “Small”. > > > Cheers, > Doru > > > > > You reminded me that I neeed to update my "Why Pharo" video :) > > > > Great work > > > > On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 2:43 PM Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: > > Hi Stephan, > > > > > On 25 Sep 2016, at 13:07, Stephan Eggermont <step...@stack.nl> wrote: > > > > > > I finally found the time to put the slides and narrative together > > > > > > https://medium.com/@stephan_32833/pharo-50c66685913c#.jeou548z7 > > > > > > Stephan > > > > Great article, super cool slides, well done. I especially appreciate how > > you guys managed to make so many good points in such a deceptively simple > > and clear text — that takes a lot of work. > > > > Any chance you would like to submit it too 'Concerning Pharo' publication > > [https://medium.com/concerning-pharo] ? Just send a submission and I would > > love to add it. > > > > Sven > > > > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > www.feenk.com > > "If you can't say why something is relevant, > it probably isn't." > > -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "There are no old things, there are only old ways of looking at them."
