Thank you, Volkert, for these nice words, we really appreciate it. Looking forward to seeing/hearing more from you. Sven BTW, you have a nice signature quote ;-) On 27 Dec 2013, at 11:16, Volkert Barr <volkert@nivoba.de> wrote:
Thank you for Pharo â¦.
I am following the development of Pharo since its fork from Squeak, and i am really impressed what you crazy guys all have archived the last years. It all evolved to really nice language, a fantastic nice looking live programming environment, cool packages and a growing ecosystems. I have so much fun using Pharo. Thank you.
2011 i gave me a push to learn Pharo and last year i decided to do a small research prototype with it. The goal is a tool to analyze and visualize application landscapes. I have implemented a small repository model for the different architecture levels, some data analytic rules on top the model, and some model visualizations. For visualization i use Roassal/Mondrian. For Data-In/-Export i use simply NeoCSV. Next year i plan to add more data analytic rules, to add model transformation operations to "simulate" landscape transformations (projects), and to use 3D visualizations with Roassal3D (City Metaphor). If all works fine, we see what 2015 brings ...
Pharo is really a productivity boost for me. If you are able to play around with the objects in an interactive environment life is getting so much easier.
My wishes for Pharo:
- Some kind of "Pharo Capability Map". It is really hard to understand for a newbie what Pharo is all supporting, what is planed for the future, what the library names are, .... - Stable Pharo 3.0 - Roassal3D (Roassal is so coooool, one of the killer frameworks for Pharo). - More User Interface programming examples - 64 Bit VM and MultiCore Support
Thank you guys, and best wishes for 2014 Volkert