I use it mainly for teaching at the university: - Free (no cost) and Free (open source) - The easy setup allows my beginner students to focus on OOP topics - Several integrated tools: programming environment + test framework + coverage tool + source control tool. All other popular langages (java, ruby, python, etc, etc) requires several downloads (and setups) to do the same - It is portable between different OS and the features we use work exactly the same way everywhere Saludos! Nico. blog: nicopaez.wordpress.com On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr
wrote:
I would like to get from you why you use Pharo?
After thinking a lot about that recently I think that I would like to have something like that:
Pharo a plastic language to build evolvable and debuggable applications. With Pharo and its ecosystem you can build powerful tools (web application, data management, business processesâ¦). Pharo philosophy is driven by domain driven design. Modeling is agile. Pharo is an executable modeling language. Pharo is not only a language but an infrastructure with powerful tools like Moose.
Plastic = "(in science and technology) of or relating to the permanent deformation of a solid without fracture by the temporary application of force."
Pharo: ease of modeling, essence of agile, close to objects all the time.
Stef