ROFL thank you Marcus I needed a good laugh. I have watched this before, but as always completely forgot about it. I think its great when people don't take coding so seriously and have fun with it. I agree also that no pharoer would be against Java coming to pharo , the problem is who is going to do it. There so many great ideas out there, but actually doing the work is both hard and time consuming. On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr>wrote:
But the problem is that the *semantics* are still that of Smalltalk, and
itâs completely not clear for the programmer where the similarity ends.
If you want to have âI can type in examples from my ruby bookâ
compatibility, you need to implement the real semantics, which in many cases
means to re-implement the VM of that other language (in a very slow version) on top of your VM which does not really have the properties to support those semantics.
Just imagine things like that...
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
:-)
Marcus