[Pharo-users] Re: How do I unsubscribe?

2023-01-17 Thread Hedley Finger
Thanks James. I usually only look at the header details when I suspect the sender is a scammer. You learn something new every day. Regards, Hedley Hedley Finger hedley.fin...@gmail.com On Wed, 18 Jan 2023, 11:14 James Foster, wrote: > Hi Hedley, > > If you look at the raw source for the

[Pharo-users] Re: How do I unsubscribe?

2023-01-17 Thread James Foster
Hi Hedley, If you look at the raw source for the email, it includes the following lines in the header: Reply-To: Any question about pharo is welcome Subject: [Pharo-users] How do I unsubscribe? List-Id: Any question about pharo is welcome List-Archive:

[Pharo-users] How do I unsubscribe?

2023-01-17 Thread Hedley Finger
I can't find any info at the Affinity list-server about unsubscribing from this list. Presumably there is a special address but I can't think what command to add after pharo-users-???. TIA. Hedley Finger hedley.fin...@gmail.com

[Pharo-users] Re: Sacrilegeous question : what are compelling use cases for Pharo

2023-01-17 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi Mayuresh, I think that putting all the weight of a PhD the thesis in a particular phrase of the abstract, without looking the authors perspective about why he puts a particular origin on that place, it's not a good reading practice. So I'm glad that you will give the deep reading that this

[Pharo-users] Re: Sacrilegeous question : what are compelling use cases for Pharo

2023-01-17 Thread Richard O'Keefe
Much sympathy for your life situation. Most of the Smalltalk code I personally develop is developed using a classic text editor, is batch compiled, and runs headless. Smalltalk is *STILL* an amazing language without the "addictive" IDE. (In fact the more "conventional" Smalltalk systems I use

[Pharo-users] Re: Sacrilegeous question : what are compelling use cases for Pharo

2023-01-17 Thread Richard O'Keefe
Back when I was a University lecturer, I sometimes amused myself by rewriting student (or other staff!) Java code in Smalltalk. I generally got about a factor of 6 smaller. Of course, that was before Java 8, which copied blocks and higher-order collection methods from Smalltalk. On Sat, 14 Jan