The problem with reading class oriented code (C++, Java, C#, Ruby, ..., Smalltalk) is that the code does not reveal how the system will work at runtime (polymorphism). The essence of object orientation is that objects collaborate to achieve a goal.�� The DCI programming paradigm adds code for how the system works at runtime:
Class and context separates the code into two materially independent concerns: What the system IS (classes) and what the system DOES (Contexts). BabyIDE is a programming environment that supports the DCI paradigm.�� It is available in Squeak 4.5 and may be available in Pharo later.
Cheers
--Trygve


On 11.02.2015 18:36, kilon alios wrote:
Well I tried in the past to use openqwaq , but what I learned from the experience is that sometimes understanding others code can be even more time consuming than remaking it yourself. I spent like an afternoon trying to understand openqwaq before starting Ephestos from complete scratch. Suffice to say that in another afternoon I had the prototype of Ephestos working with the ability to send simple python strings to the cptyhon interpreter to be execute by the time I was not even able to understand the basic architecture of openqwaq.��

The module you recommended alone contains like 11.000 lines of code. Thats a lot of work to just read that code and I cant find any class named CModel. In any case I like it that I started from scratch, I want to keep my project small, light, well documented and super easy to hack. Even if that means less features :)

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