On Apr 9, 2016 9:54 AM, "olivier auverlot" <olivier.auverlot@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think that it could be interesting to use it also ��on a simple HTML page for the Pharo web site. This document can be put in the main menu ("Beginners" ?) just before "Documentation".
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> It's really cool to have a synthesis document for the newcomers.

I still have a little Squeak booklet that we could redo for Pharo. It was very useful when I was learning.

Phil
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> 2016-04-09 8:09 GMT+02:00 Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com>:
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>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 6:16 AM, Damien Pollet <damien.pollet@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 8 April 2016 at 22:57, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
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>> >> Since we are simpler and more logical, a cheat sheet should not confuse
>> >> people by describing what we are not.
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>> > I beg to disagree. "Simpler and more logical" is just your biased point of
>> > view; fact is, zero-based indexing is just more widespread in programming
>> > languages.
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>> > I would be happy to be proven wrong about that, but I seriously doubt most
>> > people that come to Smalltalk have never been exposed to programming before.
>> > It's not unreasonable to assume that they've started programming in any one
>> > of the most popular languages these days, and that that language is
>> > zero-indexed. So mentioning that in Smalltalk the first element is indeed at
>> > index 1 is pretty essential, if just to lift the ambiguity.
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>> +1.�� But to follow Sven's point exactly.�� We don't need to say we are
>> "not 0 based", just that we are "1�� based".
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>> cheers -ben
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