Big data, like the âcloudâ, is mainly a marketing thing to sell big iron in big datacenters. So if youâre going back to big iron anyway, might as well use VisualGen for COBOL. What? VisualGen is written in IBM Smalltalk? Just donât tell anyone, theyâll never guess. Andrew On 2017-03-26, 11:43 AM, "Pharo-users on behalf of Stephan Eggermont" <pharo-users-bounces@lists.pharo.org on behalf of stephan@stack.nl> wrote: On 26/03/17 04:16, Pierce Ng wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 07:56:03PM +0100, Stephan Eggermont wrote: >> On 25/03/17 18:29, serge.stinckwich@gmail.com wrote: >>> Nice ! But do you have a way to automatize this process ? ;-) >> How difficult can it be? We did it 18 years ago in java & delphi :) > > I was going to answer 'Hadoop!', then went to SO and saw your (Stephan's) > meta-comment on moderators who closed a question on big data in Smalltalk. > Heh. Yeah. On SO, state you are doing big data with pharo and ask a very specific question. On the best way to detect hanging images or so. Stephan