Hello Sean
I started using Squeak a few months ago, mostly in a time permitting fashion.. 2-3 weeks ago, I saw a Pharo related message come across that list and joined here to see what Pharo is. I'm still not entirely sure, so I'm asking...
Pharo is... ?
The little bit of marketing on the website makes it sound appealing and I'm sure if I had more experience with Squeak then downloading the one click and running it and poking around would have answered a ton of questions but, I don't have the Squeak background to have that be meaningful.
Pharo's goal is to be a clean free-open source Smalltalk. To remove a lot of cruft due to etoy experiences and other left over. We want a system that we can use to present good design to good students. I was always torn apart to show Squeak in my oop design lectures because of the various Lovecraft horrors living under the squeak sea.
Is there a document somewhere that says what Pharo is meant to be.
The web page
What initial concrete changes from Squeak where done/are going to be done?
You can see all the change in the ScriptLoader new logContents For the next changes you can check the bug tracker and also the next milestone. For the large items: Sophie network and cleanup Event cleanup Sophie URI ... But this will be for the next miletones.
I really need something as a jumping off point...
We are all working with Pharo, lukas and others are using pharo for developing Seaside. So this is not just a project in the air.
Thanks for any pointers, Sean
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