I do agree, that nomads do not build cathedrals but there is the flip side of the coin, why one would want to be a nomad and the great benefits coming with being a nomad��

Guido the creator of python explains it from the side of the Python Standard library but I think it applies fine for Pharo too��

http://youtu.be/EBRMq2Ioxsc?t=49m4s

he makes the point at 49th minute for a couple of minutes. Especially if the subject of your coding is quite unconventional putting it inside a standard distribution can be a huge wast of time that not only can offer limited benefits but even decrease the quality of the code substantially.��

Afterall the most beautiful things in life are not big at all ;)��

But yes I agree that being teamplayer is extremely important too. The balance is somewhere in between and I am a big supporter of what you trying to do with making pharo more modular.��

Thanks for the slides. I am using Pharo for a couple of years and I am amazed how far it has come , keep up the great work.��

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr> wrote:

> On 02 Feb 2015, at 21:19, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Here are the slides from my talk from yesterday:
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/MarcusDenker/2015-fosdempharo
>

The part in between Pharo3 and Pharo4 tries a bit to explain the philosophy��� I did a longer
talk at ESUG last year about that:

Nomads do not build Cathedrals
�� �� �� �� http://www.slideshare.net/MarcusDenker/2014-esugcathedral

The video of that is online:

Video Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcoy5gwUvOA
Video Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LrH9r4FNzY

In the spirit of the talk, I should do a pass over it and make a version 2���

e.g. one book that was very influential to my thinking was
Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse:

�� �� �� �� http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/000434

To me a software system should always be thought as an ���infinite game������

�� �� �� �� Marcus