April 16, 2020
10:46 a.m.
As a matter of fact it is interesting to compare the number of classes in the last releases of the descendants of Smalltalk 80: * Cuis5 (480 classes), * Squeak 5.2 (2713 classes) * Pharo8 (*9084 *classes) I don't think the last Pharo vision statement: /A system with robust abstractions that a single person can understand./ is in anyway realistic. Now, will Pharo9 reach the sky with *10'000* classes? Very likely if you observe the graph below: Hilaire Le 13/04/2020 à 14:30, Cédrick Béler a écrit :
Just a reflexion that Iâd like to share here. When Hilaire talks about complexity. I have to agree too, even if I like the progress under the hood, and explored spaces like GToolkit.
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