February 2018 - Pharo-users

Re: [Pharo-users] [Wanted] Welcome email for Newsletter

by Sven Van Caekenberghe

<Here is something, mostly copy/pasted from the website> <some edits/corrections> Hello and Welcome to Pharo ! You just subscribed to the Pharo Newsletter mailing list. Each week you will receive an update on what is going on in the Pharo community. An archive of past posting can be found at http://newsletter.pharo.org Our main website [ https://pharo.org ] is the best place to get started as it contains links to various resources, such as http://books.pharo.org - a library of published books http://mooc.pharo.org - an extensive online course Pharo is a mininal, elegant, pure, reflective object language. Yes, in Pharo there are only objects! Nothing else. Yes, the complete syntax of Pharo fits on a postcard. Yes, we code in the debugger and have super cool tools that empower you and make you super efficient. Pharo's goal is to deliver a clean, innovative, free and open-source immersive environment. By providing a stable and small core system, excellent development tools and maintained releases, Pharo is an attractive platform to build and deploy mission critical applications. Pharo fosters a healthy ecosystem of both private and commercial contributors who advance and maintain the core system and its external packages. Pharo features A dynamic, pure object-oriented programming language in the tradition of Smalltalk An integrated development environment (IDE) A huge library and set of external packages Furthermore Pharo is supported by the industrial Pharo consortium [ http://consortium.pharo.org ] by its users through the Pharo association [ http://association.pharo.org ] Regards, The Pharo Community > On 7 Feb 2018, at 09:32, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven(a)stfx.eu> wrote: > > > >> On 7 Feb 2018, at 08:29, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> As you know, we have a monthly Pharo newsletter which goes out to >2000 subscribers >> each month. It is growing steadily. >> >> The platform we use (Mailchimp) allows for a âWelcome Mailâ to be send for new subscribers. >> >> What do you think a short mail like that should contain? >> >> >> Marcus > > <Here is something, mostly copy/pasted from the website> > > > > Hello and Welcome to Pharo ! > > > You just subscribed to the Pharo Newsletter mailing list. > > Each week you will receive an update on what is going on in the Pharo community. An archive of past posting can be found at > > http://newsletter.pharo.org > > > Our main website [ https://pharo.org ] is the best place to get started as it contains links to various resources, such as > > http://books.pharo.org - a library of published books > http://mooc.pharo.org - an extensive online course > > > Pharo is a mininal, elegant, pure, reflective object language. > > Yes, in Pharo they are only objects! Nothing else. > Yes, the complete syntax of Pharo fits on a postcard. > Yes, we code in the debugger and Pharo has super cool tools that empower you and make you super efficient. > > Pharo's goal is to deliver a clean, innovative, free and open-source immersive environment. > > By providing a stable and small core system, excellent developing tools, and maintained releases, Pharo is an attractive platform to build and deploy mission critical applications. > > Pharo fosters a healthy ecosystem of both private and commercial contributors who advance and maintain the core system and its external packages. > > Pharo features > > A dynamic, pure object-oriented programming language in the tradition of Smalltalk > An IDE (integrated development environment) > A huge library and set of external packages > > Furthermore > > Pharo is supported by the industrial Pharo consortium [ http://consortium.pharo.org ] > Pharo has also an association of users: Pharo association [ http://association.pharo.org ] > > > Regards, > > The Pharo Community >

Feb. 7, 2018

Re: [Pharo-users] [Wanted] Welcome email for Newsletter

by Marcus Denker

Thanks, I will use that. Marcus > On 7 Feb 2018, at 10:03, John Pfersich <jpfersich(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > mininal should be minimal > > Sent from my iPad > For encrypted mail use jgpfersich(a)protonmail.com > Get a free account at ProtonMail.com > >> On Feb 7, 2018, at 00:32, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven(a)stfx.eu> wrote: >> >> mininal >

Feb. 7, 2018

Re: [Pharo-users] Workspace/Playground behavior change for unknown "bindings"?

by Marcus Denker

> On 7 Feb 2018, at 09:58, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr> wrote: > > Ok, pull request for Pharo7: > > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/806 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/806> > > we should add that to Pharo6, too (Slice is already in the inbox) > The idea is that this is the first step, we need to simplify the whole Requester-Scope story later. (I was waiting to remove the old compiler *and* start to deprecate the old Api before doing that). But it fixes the problem and is a first step. Marcus

Feb. 7, 2018

Re: [Pharo-users] [Wanted] Welcome email for Newsletter

by John Pfersich

mininal should be minimal Sent from my iPad For encrypted mail use jgpfersich(a)protonmail.com Get a free account at ProtonMail.com > On Feb 7, 2018, at 00:32, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven(a)stfx.eu> wrote: > > mininal

Feb. 7, 2018

Re: [Pharo-users] Workspace/Playground behavior change for unknown "bindings"?

by Marcus Denker

Ok, pull request for Pharo7: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/806 <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/806> we should add that to Pharo6, too (Slice is already in the inbox) Marcus > On 7 Feb 2018, at 09:37, Norbert Hartl <norbert(a)hartl.name> wrote: > > Haha, same annoyance to me when I demonstrate. > > Norbert > > >> Am 06.02.2018 um 22:35 schrieb Holger Freyther <holger(a)freyther.de>: >> >> Hey, >> >> I recently showed Pharo to a friend and one thing I like doing is to open a playground/workspace and then write and execute: >> >> >> Person new >> name: '...'; >> age: 2342; >> yourself >> >> In old versions of Pharo I would get a popup like "Person" not known and asking me if I want to create a class. In Pharo6.1 I did get an error. Was this intentional? >> >> >> holger >

Feb. 7, 2018

Re: [Pharo-users] Workspace/Playground behavior change for unknown "bindings"?

by Norbert Hartl

Haha, same annoyance to me when I demonstrate. Norbert > Am 06.02.2018 um 22:35 schrieb Holger Freyther <holger(a)freyther.de>: > > Hey, > > I recently showed Pharo to a friend and one thing I like doing is to open a playground/workspace and then write and execute: > > > Person new > name: '...'; > age: 2342; > yourself > > In old versions of Pharo I would get a popup like "Person" not known and asking me if I want to create a class. In Pharo6.1 I did get an error. Was this intentional? > > > holger

Feb. 7, 2018

Re: [Pharo-users] [Wanted] Welcome email for Newsletter

by Sven Van Caekenberghe

> On 7 Feb 2018, at 08:29, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr> wrote: > > Hi, > > As you know, we have a monthly Pharo newsletter which goes out to >2000 subscribers > each month. It is growing steadily. > > The platform we use (Mailchimp) allows for a âWelcome Mailâ to be send for new subscribers. > > What do you think a short mail like that should contain? > > > Marcus <Here is something, mostly copy/pasted from the website> Hello and Welcome to Pharo ! You just subscribed to the Pharo Newsletter mailing list. Each week you will receive an update on what is going on in the Pharo community. An archive of past posting can be found at http://newsletter.pharo.org Our main website [ https://pharo.org ] is the best place to get started as it contains links to various resources, such as http://books.pharo.org - a library of published books http://mooc.pharo.org - an extensive online course Pharo is a mininal, elegant, pure, reflective object language. Yes, in Pharo they are only objects! Nothing else. Yes, the complete syntax of Pharo fits on a postcard. Yes, we code in the debugger and Pharo has super cool tools that empower you and make you super efficient. Pharo's goal is to deliver a clean, innovative, free and open-source immersive environment. By providing a stable and small core system, excellent developing tools, and maintained releases, Pharo is an attractive platform to build and deploy mission critical applications. Pharo fosters a healthy ecosystem of both private and commercial contributors who advance and maintain the core system and its external packages. Pharo features A dynamic, pure object-oriented programming language in the tradition of Smalltalk An IDE (integrated development environment) A huge library and set of external packages Furthermore Pharo is supported by the industrial Pharo consortium [ http://consortium.pharo.org ] Pharo has also an association of users: Pharo association [ http://association.pharo.org ] Regards, The Pharo Community

Feb. 7, 2018

[Wanted] Content for Newsletter

by Marcus Denker

Hi, We are sending a monthly newsletter, see http://newsletter.pharo.org It has a collection of links gathers during the month, but in addition 2-3 larger âmini articlesâ If someone has ideas for small articles like this â> send me a mail. Marcus

Feb. 7, 2018

[Wanted] Welcome email for Newsletter

by Marcus Denker

Hi, As you know, we have a monthly Pharo newsletter which goes out to >2000 subscribers each month. It is growing steadily. The platform we use (Mailchimp) allows for a âWelcome Mailâ to be send for new subscribers. What do you think a short mail like that should contain? Marcus

Feb. 7, 2018

Re: [Pharo-users] Workspace/Playground behavior change for unknown "bindings"?

by Marcus Denker

Hello, Yes, this is a bugâ¦ I have a fix and planned to merge it this week. https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20254/Playground-should-ask-to-create-cla… > On 6 Feb 2018, at 22:35, Holger Freyther <holger(a)freyther.de> wrote: > > Hey, > > I recently showed Pharo to a friend and one thing I like doing is to open a playground/workspace and then write and execute: > > > Person new > name: '...'; > age: 2342; > yourself > > In old versions of Pharo I would get a popup like "Person" not known and asking me if I want to create a class. In Pharo6.1 I did get an error. Was this intentional? > > > holger

Feb. 7, 2018