Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo is exploding[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-05-16 Thread Stephen Taylor
On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 08:31 -0700, Francois Stephany wrote: > > Yes let us create a core-dev private mailing-list. > > > Please don't. > > Just force people to use pharo-users when the question does not fit the > criteria for pharo-project. Agreed. I like to see what's going on, even if I can'

Re: [Pharo-project] [OT] ffs![SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-05-10 Thread Stephen Taylor
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 16:26 +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote: > i found this funny.. > > most of you probably know, what ffs means.. > if not, see here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FFS I believe it stands for "fair's fair - surely". It's often found near another acronym "WTF:, which

Re: [Pharo-project] Which home for a class?[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-05-03 Thread Stephen Taylor
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 14:18 +1000, James Ladd wrote: > Please adopt a lonely Class that needs a home, You've already sent that once.

Re: [Pharo-project] How to cook Mr Popatoe Process?[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-02-21 Thread Stephen Taylor
On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 13:33 -0600, Jimmie Houchin wrote: > If he actually provides > something usefully such as a bug report with reproducible actions, or > a patch, an appropriate approved actionable suggestion. Then we can > treat those emails with the respect due such emails.

Re: [Pharo-project] could we agree to remove caseOf: and caseOf:otherwise:

2011-02-14 Thread Stephen Taylor
Igor Stasenko wrote: On 14 February 2011 01:32, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: That's where I typically use a dictionary. Indeed. Yes - sensible answer from Wilhelm Schwab. You didn't answer the question though. Because it sounds rhetoric to me. How to deal with randomly put integers coming

Re: [Pharo-project] could we agree to remove caseOf: and caseOf:otherwise:

2011-02-13 Thread Stephen Taylor
Igor Stasenko wrote: You have some integers: 0 83 67 77 68 72 80 112 113 87 70 82. When a variable's value is equal to any of these... Don't try to convince me that there are sort of problems which can be solved only by using case statement :) You didn't answer the question though. First,

Re: [Pharo-project] Origins [poll]

2011-01-10 Thread Stephen Taylor
Name|Native Language|Greeting in native lang|Born country|Writing from|More Steve Taylor|English|hello|Australia|Australia|old smalltalker looking to get back into it

Re: [Pharo-project] marketing or not?

2010-12-23 Thread Stephen Taylor
Lukas Renggli wrote: Is there anyone out there working on this sort of project? Flash: http://blogs.inextenso.com/seaside/blog/learning/795d945e-d6cf-11db-ace5-000d935fad1c That's right - I'd forgotten about VistaScript. It looked good for a while and then it completely disappeared off the

Re: [Pharo-project] marketing or not?

2010-12-23 Thread Stephen Taylor
The question it raises for me - I've always been tantalised by the prospect of Smalltalk running on top of a popular and widespread platform - Bistro, which brought Smalltalk to the JVM was an early attempt. What I'd really like to see these days though is a Smalltalk environment running on to

Re: [Pharo-project] Dear Santa ...

2010-12-19 Thread Stephen Taylor
Janko Mivšek wrote: - Namespaces +1 - that would be a very nice present.

Re: [Pharo-project] [Pharo-users] [ANN] Pharo 1.0 released!

2010-04-19 Thread Stephen Taylor
Igor Stasenko wrote: Fine. Let this mindless crowd go its way. I don't feel a loss. I do. I would prefer the "mindless crowd" as you call them to be on our side. Steve ___ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inr

Re: [Pharo-project] [Pharo-users] [ANN] Pharo 1.0 released!

2010-04-18 Thread Stephen Taylor
Henrik Johansen wrote: Gotta love reddit... [...] - "I don't know what Smalltalk is, and the site doesn't tell me, not even the about page!" That one I think is legitimate - and not just for Pharo but for almost every Open Source project out there. I think every project's home page shoul

Re: [Pharo-project] Parrot VM

2010-01-19 Thread Stephen Taylor
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > Parrot's GC suffers from having many different kinds of mixed objects. Could you explain (or give a pointer) to what you mean by "mixed objects"? Steve ___ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2010-01-10 Thread Stephen Taylor
Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > Steve, > > I'm confused: how is a D4 guy an idea space fan??? The key word is laziness - not the good sort of laziness that programmers are supposed to have, along with hubris, etc, but the bad sort you're supposed to shake yourself out of. I've bought the various n

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2010-01-10 Thread Stephen Taylor
Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > Dolphin is better than that I've put my money where my mouth is with Dolphin - I think I've bought every product they've ever released, just to give them a hand - despite the fact that I've still got a Dolphin version4 image on the go! > The feature you are describing

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo-beginner mailing list ?

2010-01-10 Thread Stephen Taylor
Adrian Kuhn wrote: > For example, one thing we could do is pushing Stackoverflow. They have a > large > userbase and excellent google ranks. When you ask a question on SO, it > appears > *immediately* on google! StackOverflow is good. I recently asked a Pharo question there about missing b

Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo for Professional Development

2010-01-10 Thread Stephen Taylor
Michael Rueger wrote: > Henrik Johansen wrote: > >> This is just another reason why multiple native windows would be nice, >> though, leaves the problem for someone else :) > > Interestingly enough a lot of the (complex) multiple native window > applications have (gone back to) all in one windo

Re: [Pharo-project] New User Experience Suggestion for 1.0

2009-12-07 Thread Stephen Taylor
Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > The counter argument is that PBE is readily available and very well written. It is, but I think it's well worth considering what people think in their first couple of seconds of exposure to a new product - especially something like Smalltalk where people may well be loo