On Sat, Nov 24, 2018, 10:27 Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 9:54 AM horrido <horrido.hobbies@gmail.com> wrote:
All of these are good ideas. But they deviate from my vision. At any rate, my competition idea was a big hit in Salta, and I am committed to moving forward with it.
Since nobody has stepped up to the plate, David Buck will try to find time to code the competition. However, progress will be slow because of his busy schedule.
And since David is not familiar with Pharo, we'll have to do the competition in VisualWorks, after all. Perhaps in the next edition of the James Robertson Memorial Programming Competition (hopefully in 2021 for the United States), someone will port the VisualWorks code over to Pharo (hint, hint).
Hi Richard,
Please note that for the people that put the money might not be the same doing it in a commercial Smalltalk rather than an open-source one. Sure, most commercial Smalltalks do offer open source licenses, but that's not the same as being an open source Smalltalk. So, I don't know what did you promise for the competition, but if it was with Pharo, it may be they only want Pharo or at least an open source Smalltalk.
I think, from GemTalk's perspective, we would *prefer* an open product like Pharo. But, the most important consideration is that the competition be successful.
Best,
-- Mariano https://twitter.com/MartinezPeck http://marianopeck.wordpress.com