Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-04-03 Thread Cameron Sanders via Pharo-dev
> From: Cameron Sanders <camsand...@aol.com> > To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> > Cc: > Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 13:46:31 -0400 > Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :) > So was SciSmalltalk renamed? > -cam >

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-04-03 Thread Cameron Sanders via Pharo-dev
--- Begin Message --- So was SciSmalltalk renamed? -cam On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Torsten Bergmann wrote: > It is understandable that over time an own identity for Pharo is helpful > (especially > because of the bad Smalltalk marketing, failures of commercial vendors in >

[Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-06 Thread Ben Coman
On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 5:05 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > >> On 05 Mar 2016, at 19:57, Ben Coman wrote: >> >> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 2:10 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: >>> On 05 Mar 2016, at 18:22, Eliot Miranda

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-06 Thread stepharo
Le 6/3/16 14:53, Nicolai Hess a écrit : Thank you Stéphane Ducasse, thank you Eliot Miranda, and all other people of this community. I appreciate what all you are doing (as a teacher / developer / user / supporter) for environment> and it is a pleasure for me to work with you. Me too :)

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-06 Thread Torsten Bergmann
It is understandable that over time an own identity for Pharo is helpful (especially because of the bad Smalltalk marketing, failures of commercial vendors in the past, ...). But also no one can not deny/hide the original roots of Pharo: the primary foundations with pure objects all the way

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-06 Thread Yuriy Tymchuk
pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> wrote: > > > From: Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-dev <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> > Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :) > Date: 6 March 2016 at 14:31:24 GMT+1 > To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org&g

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-06 Thread Nicolai Hess
Thank you Stéphane Ducasse, thank you Eliot Miranda, and all other people of this community. I appreciate what all you are doing (as a teacher / developer / user / supporter) for and it is a pleasure for me to work with you. (this is all I have to say to this topic) Thanks ! And go one :-)

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-06 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-dev
lectual horizon of radius zero".  (A. Einstein) From: Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> Sent: Sunday, March 6, 2016 7:00 AM Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :) Sorry guys bu

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-06 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
Sorry guys but I dont think this is non sense because you may be coding in Pharo and Smalltalk for a long time, but as a beginner I was confused by this, and to this day I am still confused why Pharo is not calling itself a modern implementation of Smalltalk. Even in Pharo by Example there was no

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-06 Thread Volkert
+100 On 06.03.2016 09:48, stepharo wrote: Why Pharo is not smalltalk and will not be Smalltalk - First because we make it to free us from the past. - In the future we want that people that learned smalltalk in the 90 do not discard Pharo because - "what killed

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-06 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
> On 06 Mar 2016, at 10:50, Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-dev > wrote: > > Instead of spending a sh*tload of bytes arguing about this nonsense, let's > move on to do some coding... Sorry, but this is the only reasonable thing I can rescue from this whole thread. The

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-06 Thread stepharo
I do not know in which world you live. You are probably not exposed to students and to technology stack, techno center, hackaton and other place were developers gather and hack. You probably use Smalltalk for your hobby and this is great. I'm selling Pharo to industry and programmers and the

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-06 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-dev
Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> Cc: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-us...@lists.pharo.org> Sent: Saturday, March 5, 2016 5:37 AM Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :) frankly all this

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2016-03-06 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-dev
Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero".  (A. Einstein) From: stepharo <steph...@free.fr> To: pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org Sent: Sunday, March 6, 2016 3:48 AM Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :

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2016-03-06 Thread stepharo
People having problems to be solved using numqi ou abacus can you register to the mailing list and that we can continue working there? And collecting your needs? Stef Le 2/3/16 14:17, stepharo a écrit : Hi guys I met Didier Besset and we had a great hacking session and discussions with Serge

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-06 Thread stepharo
Why Pharo is not smalltalk and will not be Smalltalk - First because we make it to free us from the past. - In the future we want that people that learned smalltalk in the 90 do not discard Pharo because - "what killed smalltalk was that we could not work well in

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-06 Thread stepharo
left blank on purpose Le 5/3/16 18:22, Eliot Miranda a écrit : Stef, On Mar 5, 2016, at 12:10 AM, stepharo > wrote: You probably leave in a protected environment but I do not live in the same. Did you check numPy recently or R? momemtum? Do you

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 03/05/2016 08:33 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote: Jimmie, On Mar 5, 2016, at 5:56 PM, Jimmie Houchin wrote: On 03/05/2016 12:57 PM, Ben Coman wrote: On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 2:10 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: On 05 Mar 2016, at 18:22, Eliot Miranda

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Eliot Miranda
Jimmie, >> On Mar 5, 2016, at 5:56 PM, Jimmie Houchin wrote: >> >> On 03/05/2016 12:57 PM, Ben Coman wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 2:10 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: On 05 Mar 2016, at 18:22, Eliot Miranda wrote:

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Eliot Miranda
Sven, > On Mar 5, 2016, at 1:05 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > > >> On 05 Mar 2016, at 19:57, Ben Coman wrote: >> >> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 2:10 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: >>> On 05 Mar 2016, at 18:22, Eliot Miranda

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 03/05/2016 12:57 PM, Ben Coman wrote: On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 2:10 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: On 05 Mar 2016, at 18:22, Eliot Miranda wrote: Stef, On Mar 5, 2016, at 12:10 AM, stepharo wrote: You probably leave in a

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Serge Stinckwich
On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > >> On 05 Mar 2016, at 19:57, Ben Coman wrote: >> >> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 2:10 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: >>> On 05 Mar 2016, at 18:22, Eliot Miranda

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
> On 05 Mar 2016, at 19:57, Ben Coman wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 2:10 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: >> >>> On 05 Mar 2016, at 18:22, Eliot Miranda wrote: >>> >>> Stef, >>> >>> On Mar 5, 2016, at 12:10 AM, stepharo

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Laszlo Zsolt Kiss
Hello. NumSt is good name, maybe ☺ Best regards Laszlo Zsolt 2016.03.05. 16:34 ezt írta ("Serge Stinckwich" ): > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Ben Coman wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Serge Stinckwich > >

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Ben Coman
On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 2:10 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > >> On 05 Mar 2016, at 18:22, Eliot Miranda wrote: >> >> Stef, >> >> On Mar 5, 2016, at 12:10 AM, stepharo wrote: >> >>> You probably leave in a protected environment but I do

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
> On 05 Mar 2016, at 18:22, Eliot Miranda wrote: > > Stef, > > On Mar 5, 2016, at 12:10 AM, stepharo wrote: > >> You probably leave in a protected environment but I do not live in the same. >> Did you check numPy recently or R? momemtum? >> Do you

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Eliot Miranda
Stef, > On Mar 5, 2016, at 12:10 AM, stepharo wrote: > > You probably leave in a protected environment but I do not live in the same. > Did you check numPy recently or R? momemtum? > Do you think that people do not know how to count? > In 1980 my students were not even born,

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Ben Coman
On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 12:59 AM, Ben Coman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 11:32 PM, Serge Stinckwich > wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Ben Coman wrote: >>> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Serge Stinckwich >>>

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Ben Coman
On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Eliot Miranda wrote: > > >> On Mar 5, 2016, at 7:34 AM, Serge Stinckwich >> wrote: >> >> I was thinking as this name : Abacus >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus >> A calculating tool ! > > Good! But

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Ben Coman
On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 11:32 PM, Serge Stinckwich wrote: > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Ben Coman wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Serge Stinckwich >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Nicolas

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Eliot Miranda
> On Mar 5, 2016, at 7:34 AM, Serge Stinckwich > wrote: > > I was thinking as this name : Abacus > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus > A calculating tool ! Good! > > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Ben Coman wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 5,

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Serge Stinckwich
On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Yuriy Tymchuk wrote: > Or we can use the name from other languages like Liczydło in Polish :) I have some Polish ancestors, but I'm not sure people will remember the name of the project ;-) > >> On 05 Mar 2016, at 16:34, Serge Stinckwich

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Yuriy Tymchuk
Or we can use the name from other languages like Liczydło in Polish :) > On 05 Mar 2016, at 16:34, Serge Stinckwich wrote: > > I was thinking as this name : Abacus > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus > A calculating tool ! > > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:22 PM,

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
> On 05 Mar 2016, at 16:34, Serge Stinckwich wrote: > > I was thinking as this name : Abacus > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus > A calculating tool ! I like that one (BTW, thanks for doing this project, Serge & Co, these higher level, domain specific

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Serge Stinckwich
I was thinking as this name : Abacus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus A calculating tool ! On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Ben Coman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Serge Stinckwich > wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 8:44 PM,

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Serge Stinckwich
On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Ben Coman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Serge Stinckwich > wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Nicolas Cellier >> wrote: >>> >>> 2016-03-04 19:51 GMT+01:00

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2016-03-05 Thread Ben Coman
On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Serge Stinckwich wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Nicolas Cellier > wrote: >> >> 2016-03-04 19:51 GMT+01:00 Alexandre Bergel : >>> >>> I personally never liked the

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
frankly all this zealot mails do not have any sense. first, SciSmalltalk is a project made fundamentally by Serge, and is Serge who has pointed he wants a change of name for something sexier… what is the problem? second, by discussing a nonsense (because is subjective and everybody has a

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread S Krish
Emotional arguments do not change facts. Contributions of 1000's from 1970's make all of programming languages what they are. Acknowledgement of heritage period. Carry on with the great work, which future generations will acknowledge, even more the contributions of all around Pharo around today,

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread S Krish
+1 On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 6:48 AM, Eliot Miranda wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 12:08 PM, stepharo wrote: > >> >> SciPharo? Not so great news from my POV. >> What is so much pharo specific in this library? >> Is Smalltalk scientific community

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-05 Thread stepharo
You probably leave in a protected environment but I do not live in the same. Did you check numPy recently or R? momemtum? Do you think that people do not know how to count? In 1980 my students were not even born, so how can it be better than python, java, c#, lua, ... Do you think that it

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-04 Thread Eliot Miranda
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 12:08 PM, stepharo wrote: > > SciPharo? Not so great news from my POV. > What is so much pharo specific in this library? > Is Smalltalk scientific community large enough for yet another split? > > Split of what? Let us be tagged with a name of 1980 and

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-04 Thread Eliot Miranda
te: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 07:27:45 +0000 (UTC) > Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :) > Why just don't we honor Didier H. Besset and leave it as it was, Numerical > Methods in Smalltalk? > > That way, regardless of your favorite Smalltalk implementation, there will

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-04 Thread Serge Stinckwich
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Nicolas Cellier wrote: > > 2016-03-04 19:51 GMT+01:00 Alexandre Bergel : >> >> I personally never liked the name “SciSmalltalk”. “SciPharo” is much >> better in my opinion >> PhaNum is also okay to me. >>

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2016-03-04 Thread stepharo
We are changing the code and removing mistakes (except if you prefer to have double initialization for example). We are maintaining the book and we will produce a new. So focus on the good energy and our world will get much better. Le 4/3/16 08:32, Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-dev a écrit :

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-04 Thread stepharo
SciPharo? Not so great news from my POV. What is so much pharo specific in this library? Is Smalltalk scientific community large enough for yet another split? Split of what? Let us be tagged with a name of 1980 and die in peace. Yes this looks like a smart move. There are just Python and R

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-04 Thread Nicolas Cellier
2016-03-04 19:51 GMT+01:00 Alexandre Bergel : > I personally never liked the name “SciSmalltalk”. “SciPharo” is much > better in my opinion > PhaNum is also okay to me. > > SciSmalltalk is ugly. Currently, there is no package named SciSmalltalk. SciSmalltalk is just: - an

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-04 Thread Alexandre Bergel
I personally never liked the name “SciSmalltalk”. “SciPharo” is much better in my opinion PhaNum is also okay to me. Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > On Mar 2, 2016, at

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-03 Thread Nicolas Cellier
noit St-Jean <bstj...@yahoo.com> > To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> > Cc: > Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 07:27:45 +0000 (UTC) > Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :) > Why just don't we honor Didier H. Besset and leave it as it was, N

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2016-03-03 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-dev
om: Serge Stinckwich <serge.stinckw...@gmail.com> To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :) On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.n...@g

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-02 Thread Serge Stinckwich
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Nicolas Cellier wrote: > SciPharo? Not so great news from my POV. > What is so much pharo specific in this library? > Is Smalltalk scientific community large enough for yet another split? We can think of a more neutral name. Any

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-02 Thread Paul DeBruicker
+1 Nicolas Cellier wrote > SciPharo? Not so great news from my POV. > What is so much pharo specific in this library? > Is Smalltalk scientific community large enough for yet another split? > > 2016-03-02 14:56 GMT+01:00 Serge Stinckwich > serge.stinckwich@ > : > >> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-02 Thread Nicolas Cellier
SciPharo? Not so great news from my POV. What is so much pharo specific in this library? Is Smalltalk scientific community large enough for yet another split? 2016-03-02 14:56 GMT+01:00 Serge Stinckwich : > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Tudor Girba

Re: [Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-02 Thread Serge Stinckwich
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Tudor Girba wrote: > This is great news! > > I would be interested in time series and distributions as well. Distributions are already there. I start some early work on time series. -- Serge Stinckwich UCBN & UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC)

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2016-03-02 Thread Tudor Girba
This is great news! I would be interested in time series and distributions as well. Cheers, Doru > On Mar 2, 2016, at 2:33 PM, stepharo wrote: > > Hi guys > > I met Didier Besset and we had a great hacking session and discussions with > Serge Stinckwich. > Didier would

[Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-02 Thread stepharo
Hi guys I met Didier Besset and we had a great hacking session and discussions with Serge Stinckwich. Didier would like to help Pharo and the numerical part of it. ***Big thanks*** Didier. We would like to do several things: - Work on "Hows to" The numerical methods in Pharo is

[Pharo-dev] Call about Numerical Methods in Pharo :)

2016-03-02 Thread stepharo
Hi guys I met Didier Besset and we had a great hacking session and discussions with Serge Stinckwich. Didier would like to help Pharo and the numerical part of it. ***Big thanks*** Didier. We would like to do several things: - Work on "Hows to" The numerical methods in Pharo is