On Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 16:17 tbrunz <wild.id...@gmail.com> wrote: > Richard, > > I don't think it was silly. I'm sitting here thinking to myself, "Wow, > that's creative... Pharo being Pharo, you can write applications that can > send *blocks* between nodes, not just *data*..." >
I understand. I meant that in the world this exercise models (separate compute nodes connected by a network), the single god-like Pharo application doesn't exist and sending blocks is harder. (Although, GemStone/S does make it simple, at least if all the nodes are connected to the GemStone/S database.) > The concept of sending behaviors as well as data opens up some interesting > and powerful possibilities for applications! (Yet another way ST is > superior to other languages.) > Absolutely! It took a long time to *really* internalize the idea of everything is an object. Once I grokked that, it became easy to think that way all the time. > -Ted > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html > >
