Pharo, the Modern Smalltalk
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Pharo, the Modern Smalltalk
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#2There's a Mooc starting in december by the INRIA ( French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation )
https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:inria+41010+sessio...
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#3I start from stupid since I was 8 on Programming Languages. I taught myself Assembly and Pascal before I was a teenager.
I learned Racket and Smalltalk to be a better problem solver. I ended up becoming a MUCH better programmer due to these two. Racket stuck and I use it for all my personal projects but Pharo is a great learning tool at the very least.
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#4On a tangent: I wonder how everybody who writes for Medium feels about the new Quora-style nag screens.
(I can only go on tangents since I saw the nag screen and bounced.)
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#5Is there a snippet of example code to look at? I browsed the pharo.org website, but couldn't find an example to give me a taste. I even tried googling "pharo example" and with a brief look at the results didn't find an example.
Today, there are hundreds of programming languages competing for attention. It is in your interest to put an example front and center of why one should spend time looking into yet another programming language.
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#6If you want to get into Pharo, there's a MOOC by France Université Numérique starting October 16th:
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#7Is there a snippet of example code to look at? I browsed the pharo.org website, but couldn't find an example to give me a taste. I even tried googling "pharo example" and with a brief look at the results didn't find an example. Today, there are hundreds of programming languages competing for attention. It is in your interest to put an example front and center of why one should spend time looking into yet another prog…
You can download whole books with Pharo examples http://files.pharo.org/books/
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#8On a tangent: I wonder how everybody who writes for Medium feels about the new Quora-style nag screens. (I can only go on tangents since I saw the nag screen and bounced.)
It strikes me as identical to the newspapers' paywalls, in that they need the income. Except in this case, the income is from your information, not from your wallet.
I think some system of anonymous digital micropayments, integrated with the browser, is the only thing that's going to save us from paywall/adwall hell.
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#9My beef with Smalltalk is that it's far too much a world onto itself for my taste. Java is already a bad enough citizen of Unix but Smalltalk takes it to a new level. If Lisp and Scheme can integrate well into Unix, why can't Smalltalk?
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#10My beef with Smalltalk is that it's far too much a world onto itself for my taste. Java is already a bad enough citizen of Unix but Smalltalk takes it to a new level. If Lisp and Scheme can integrate well into Unix, why can't Smalltalk?
Coming from a place of ignorance, how does Smalltalk not integrate?