On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:58 PM, kilon alios <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:
very cool presentation. Definitely you need to add this to the new website.
Question : Why in every presentation we have to apologise why smalltalk is dead / extinct ?
As a newcomer to Smalltalk I find it quite annoying. Its not as if I came to Smalltalk without knowing that is not popular. The vast majority of languages out there are so more unpopular than Smalltalk, yet they don't have this "sorry that I am dead" mentality to them.
Pharo is a strategic platform to me. Productivity on that thing cannot be beaten. Still had proof today when looking for a nasty bug. Phil
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr>wrote:
⦠more a Smalltalk one using Pharo:
MountainWest RubyConf 2014
Noel Rappin: "But Really, You Should Learn Smalltalkâ
Smalltalk has mystique. We talk about it more than we use it. It seems like it should be so similar to Ruby. It has similar Object-Oriented structures, it even has blocks. But everything is so slightly different, from the programming environment, to the 1-based arrays, to the simple syntax. Using Smalltalk will make you look at familiar constructs with new eyes. Weâll show you how to get started on Smalltalk, and walk through some sample code. Live coding may be involved. Youâll never look at objects the same way again.
http://www.confreaks.com/videos/3284-mwrc-but-really-you-should-learn-smallt...