Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Smalltalk's Successor

The contrast between "flexibility of choice" and "tyranny of one standard" is, um, a little over-drawn. I have three different Common Lisp systems on this laptop: CMUCL, SBCL, and CCL. I have the flexibility of choice between them *because* the adhere to a common standard. Each of them has its

Re: [Pharo-users] Intermediate-Level Tutorials for Pharo

Hi Ted, Don't worry and take your time. I tend to write looong (this list should be thankful of English not being my first language and I mostly self learned after crappy courses, if not, you will have me writing even longer ;-P). About entry points, one of the things I like about Pharo is that

[Pharo-users] Little blog post on how to use transcript as a real OOProgrammer

Hi guys I wrote this https://thepharo.dev/2020/08/11/transcript-the-misunderstood-global/ because I thought that I had to :) See Chapter 8 for a longer version

Re: [Pharo-users] Intermediate-Level Tutorials for Pharo

Hi Offray, Just wanted to let you know that I enjoyed your several responses, and that I'm working on following-up to them. But first I wanted to look at all your links and make as thoughtful a reply as you have, and that takes a while... I think what you've been working on could be a good

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Smalltalk's Successor

Hi, On the issue of families of technologies (Lisp and Linux), I see that the article's conclusion doesn't work well in the languages front, as it does on the operative systems one. If you replace the title with Lisp's successor or Linux's successor, the articles conclusion changes, because of

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Smalltalk's Successor

Richard if you would like to have a real impact why don’t you help for real to copy edit and improve documentation. This is not your articles that will attract people, a strong documentation smoothing the learning curve will. This is super easy you can edit text right in your web browser. I