sorry meant to say Pharo is not lazy coder friendly by nature. On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 10:03 AM Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just for the record I am in agreement as I think most of us are about > this. > > But.... > > I think as a community must make one thing clear > > Pharo is environment meant to be hacked. Its not always to do so but > similarly to Squeak, the goal here is to give developers and environment > that they can design and modify themselves with ease. At least a lot more > than other languages and this is where Pharo really excels. > > In the end Pharo does not tries to be the most popular thing out there, it > tries to fill a gap that others dont or cant. Sure we want to make Pharo > popular but making something that is a ready made solution is not our top > priority. Making something modifiable and direct so much more. > > I think its our responsibility to make this clear to newcomers. > > Or else people will wonder, why not use python, ruby or whatelse which > comes with sophisticated IDEs far more lazy friendly than Pharo. > > Pharo is definetly , by nature, lazy coder friendly. Its for coders that > like to design their own workflow. > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 1:51 PM kmo <vox...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Well, my reply was rather tongue-in-cheek. I was mocking my own laziness >> and >> the laziness of developers like me. But really I have no problem in doing >> these things for myself. And I hope that soon I will be in a position to >> contribute to pharo myself. >> >> But overriding the close event is something any application developer is >> going to want to do. And every time you make a developer work harder than >> necessary to implement a basic feature you make the pharo platform less >> attractive. If you want more developers to use pharo you have to make >> basic >> things like this easy to do and easy to find out how to do. >> >> I do think that deployment of applications gets very little attention in >> pharo - yet it's a major issue of you want to make pharo a widely-used >> application platform. >> >> I'm not the only lazy developer, you know . >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://forum.world.st/Trapping-the-Pharo-window-close-event-tp4890079p4890285.html >> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >>
