kilon.alios wrote
itâs clear the community is unwilling to deal with such discussions.
I wouldn't say that... after all this thread has the most posts on this list since January 21 ;) I personally learned a lot and was glad to hear all the points. I thought the last two pretty much captured the situation, which is that you *can* do live programming in other languages, but the advantage of Pharo is that it's *about* live programming. I certainly didn't know it was even possible in some of the other languages mentioned. Yet, practically, it seems extremely difficult for a system that tacks something on as a feature to compete with a system that values that thing at its core. Ironically, the biggest barrier seems to be human, in the McLuhan sense that our medium determines how/what we can think/say. I feel lucky to have discovered Smalltalk and have cast off (most) of the brain damage from C and C++ ha ha. ----- Cheers, Sean -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html