On 4 December 2017 at 12:15, horrido <horrido.hobb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Speaking of which, one of my readers said he tried out Pharo recently and > found the documentation wanting. He was expecting a Getting Started guide at > the pharo.org website and couldn't find one. So he had to blunder around a > bit.
Thanks for passing that on. Documentation has been improving but a quick start would probably be useful. Its the sort of thing I look for in other systems to skim to evaluate how interesting they are and if they are worth investing time in. cheers -ben > I told him he could've looked at "Chapter 2: A quick tour of Pharo" in the > *Pharo by Example 5* book, but he's right. There ought to be something > obvious at the pharo.org website that helps a newbie get Pharo up and > running, understand how to basically use the Pharo IDE, and write the > standard "Hello World" program. > > I checked out squeak.org and found the same documentation issue! Why is > this??? > > > Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas-2 wrote >> Documentation is going well. In fact the stuff that kept me away of >> Squeak, despite of its potential was the lack of documentation. "The >> artifact is the curriculum" was to powerful but too heavy. You need a >> way to understand how to deconstruct and navigate the artifact that is >> usually anchored with the culture you have (books and reading) instead >> of only launching inspectors os browsing the code. Grafoscopio is my >> attempt to fill that gap between the world of objects/simulations and >> the world of scripts/documents. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Offray
