Re: [Pharo-users] Writing "powerpoint" like presentations in Pharo?

2017-11-06 Thread Cédrick Béler
I also think that would be nice to have. With tool like pillar, graphiscopio, that would be a really great option ! Org-mode generate Beamer’s présentation but we could have much better ^^ And as someone said I also think that would be cool to have a kind of présenter screen. To me the simple

Re: [Pharo-users] UFFI and Fortran

2017-11-06 Thread horrido
That would be phenomenal! Let me know if and when it's done and I shall scream it out to all of social media! tblanchard wrote > Yes - the reason I've been trying to learn FFI is specifically to get > TensorFlow integration. > > I want a better ML workbench. > >> On Nov 2, 2017, at 9:08 PM, Be

Re: [Pharo-users] X11 options on Ubuntu VM / Athens renderingproblems

2017-11-06 Thread Andrew Glynn
I don’t have any issues with Linux in full screen mode (Mint 18 KDE and OEL7 UEK KDE) but it sounds like it may be an issue with the Wayland graphics system, and KDE doesn’t use it AFAIK. If so, it may also be driver specific – what graphics card are you using? It is just a guess, but pulling

Re: [Pharo-users] X11 options on Ubuntu VM / Athens rendering problems

2017-11-06 Thread J.F. Rick
Just a quick follow up: We've found that if we are in fullscreen Pharo mode on Linux and hit the ALT button twice, the Athens-based rendering speeds up significantly. The first ALT brings the Unity launcher to the foreground. The second ALT bring fullscreen Pharo back to the foreground. I'm not sur

Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earningalivingfromSmalltalk

2017-11-06 Thread Andrew Glynn
Btw, did Self ever work? At all? The last I remember it was in a similar state to Electron without the M$ adds in Visual Studio, i.e. the samples from the site don’t build. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Thierry Goubier Sent: Monday, November 6, 2017 2:48 PM To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.o

Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earningalivingfromSmalltalk

2017-11-06 Thread Andrew Glynn
I see you appreciate Mr. Ungar almost as little as I do Roy Fielding … Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Thierry Goubier Sent: Monday, November 6, 2017 2:48 PM To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earningalivingfromSmalltalk Hi Andrew, Le 0

Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earningalivingfromSmalltalk

2017-11-06 Thread Andrew Glynn
OpenDoc was also very cool, but without branding, where would M$ be? Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Thierry Goubier Sent: Monday, November 6, 2017 2:48 PM To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earningalivingfromSmalltalk Hi Andrew, Le 06/

Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earning alivingfromSmalltalk

2017-11-06 Thread Thierry Goubier
Hi Andrew, Le 06/11/2017 à 19:59, Andrew Glynn a écrit : I /suspect/ that a (mostly repressed) underlying sense that a reliable, inexpensive platform, if popular, would have been more detrimental to IBM than to its smaller competitors. The same goes for the VisualAge family -> Smalltalk (sold

Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earning a livingfromSmalltalk

2017-11-06 Thread Richard Sargent
Andrew, I worked with OS/2 in the early 90s and really liked it; I adopted it for my personal use as well. I really enjoyed reading the details you provided earlier. I have a hypothesis that when IBM tried to sell OS/2 (Warp) via a retail channel that it "hurt". A company whose DNA was channe

[Pharo-users] LGit_GIT_ERROR: Invalid version 0 on git_remote_callbacks on latest 64bit 6.1 image?

2017-11-06 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Hi - does Iceberg work on a 64bit image yet? I’ve not tried in a while, and was surprised when I went to get a new image via the command line that I am getting the error: LGit_GIT_ERROR: Invalid version 0 on git_remote_callbacks I can see a post by Alistair in Jun asking about this, and it seems

Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earning a livingfromSmalltalk

2017-11-06 Thread Andrew Glynn
Thank you. I will see if I can get to it today or tomorrow. Andrew Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Davorin Rusevljan Sent: Monday, November 6, 2017 4:17 AM To: Any question about pharo is welcome Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earning a livingfromSmalltalk On S

Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earning alivingfromSmalltalk

2017-11-06 Thread Andrew Glynn
I know, I still use it, along with VA Java and VA C++ (the COBOL I can live without, tbh). I use them largely for prototyping, and when I need to do weird things like creating micro VM’s with cross VM client/server software in order to create enough traffic to test things like monitoring virt

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-11-06 Thread Andrew Glynn
Engineers don’t innovate often in core technologies, because they’re careful. Of course that also means they generally make terrible marketers 😊. They also don’t generally compete, which is part of the problem in this industry. The semiconductor industry, for instance, provides money to an

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-11-06 Thread Hans N Beck
Hi Dimitris, you have pointed out some good thoughts. However, for me any technical thing can have two aspects: - solve a problem, provide a product which has value (for get things done) - take the concepts (of applied technics and computer science forward) For me, both things are important. Ex

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-11-06 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
all people like popular choices, including engineers. Engineers may be more careful but they are not known exactly for their talent to innovate. We are pact animals, we are social animals. This is far from a coding problem, its pretty much coded right inside our DNA, not just for us but also for

Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earning a living fromSmalltalk

2017-11-06 Thread Davorin Rusevljan
On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Andrew Glynn wrote: > Your history is accurate, but there’s a few things I’d like to add, due > to having been employed by IBM at exactly that period working specifically > on VisualAge, not only for Smalltalk, but for Java, C++ and Cobol as well. > (my NDA’s fin

Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earning a livingfromSmalltalk

2017-11-06 Thread Marten Feldtmann
Am 06.11.2017 um 09:36 schrieb Andrew Glynn: > They did just release 5.0 in June, lol. > VisualAge Smalltalk 6.01 for OS/2 is still running without any problems ... Marten -- Marten Feldtmann

Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earning a livingfromSmalltalk

2017-11-06 Thread Andrew Glynn
They did just release 5.0 in June, lol. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: jtuc...@objektfabrik.de Sent: Monday, November 6, 2017 2:46 AM To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] perspective request for those earning a livingfromSmalltalk A tiny example why OS/2 was great:

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

2017-11-06 Thread Andrew Glynn
Btw, I think we gained pace when JS took over the front end, but lost visibility. Nothing is slower than coding a client/server app with the front end in JS. The ‘rise’ of JS is a side effect of the fact that the web was designed, built and continues to be built by ‘coders’ who don’t know enoug