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Watching from afar the great advances in machine learning over the past few years with AlphaZero, GPT3, DALLE2 I felt it important for me to start understanding what is going on un…

correct. that is the entire syntax.

The traditional problem embedding is that the VM did a lot of window configuration before the image started. This has all been stripped out of the "minheadless" builds, which have …

https://pharo.org was down. Its now back.

Squeak is directly descended from ST-80. Ten years ago Pharo forked from Squeak due to conflict around adding features outside the ANSI standard. Pharo wanted to distinguish itself…

> are these standalone binaries or can I create libraries or code which play well with other languages and systems? Traditionally Pharo could only create standalone applications, b…

Pharo does have commandline functionality, but that won't demonstrate its value as a first experience. For an interactive tutorial... open Pharo, then left-click background, Tools …

Thanks for your feedback. Maybe it would be better to show the three tools in separate screen shots rather than overlapping. One aspect of simplicity is its minimal syntax... https…

There is steadily growing industry backing for Pharo formalised in the Pharo Consortium - companies putting hard cash on the line to support its open source development. http://con…

I haven't yet. Plan to soon. Here is a demo... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezfjditHjq4&t=344s

Mostly consider it a programming language and deeply integrated development environment. However its a flavor of Smalltalk which ran as the operating system on mini-computers circa…

Here is an example of Pharo style TDD.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOuZyOKa91o

There is... https://github.com/unchartedworks/SmalltalkVimMode I haven't used it, so YMMV.

Pharo is making some moves in this direction with: * the CI first bootstrapping a non-GUI image as a separate artifact prior to loading the GUI and IDE into the release product. * …

I guess he is referring to the criticisms by martin-t.

I'm double posting since I think its important to rebut with some background around this criticism. I can understand being bitter from bleeding edge subsystems being used for a cla…

I think non-programmers probably learn Smalltalk easier, assuming its natural. Long time programmers maybe have the frustration of unlearning habits. "The only languages worth lear…

Many people find that about the depths of Morphic. It has high technical which Pharo is addressing by creating a new system Bloc (its getting close, but not there yet). Then Morphi…

Gilad Bracha (co-author of the Java Language Specification) on "#become:" in Smalltalk ( https://gbracha.blogspot.com.au/2009/07/miracle-of-become.ht... ) btw, see the section here…

I'm not familiar with these. Are the properties and methods that dynamically add visible in the code editor? It seems C# work by subclassing the DynamicObject class. What about dyn…

They only have on app because Smalltalk if agile enough they build everything they need into it as the need arises - and this has been maintained over many years.

I guess it depends on the taste of the developer. I really enjoy seeing newcomers posting in the mail list saying that Pharo makes "programming fun again". But Pharo is all about t…

Yes, Juan and community have done a good job with Cuis. Cuis is a fork of Squeak same as Pharo, and all three use the same OpenSmalltalk-VM. Both forks arose to deal with a large t…

Martin, IIUC you are a student that suffered a class using bleeding edge features. I can understand why you are bitter, but you should not be so quick to disparage Mr Ducasse. Your…

Its a recurring fee. Of course, its dependent on members feeling they are getting value for money and continuing each year. The platinum level was only recently created. I don't kn…