Stephan Eggermont wrote:
Sean P. DeNigris <s...@clipperadams.com> wrote:
OT: It's ironic that Smalltalkers are often accused of NIH syndrome, but the
first reaction of people from less "productive" languages/systems is to
rewrite a working Smalltalk app in their language of comfort…
Indeed. And rewriting something that also uses an OODB is going to kill
productivity even more. I’ve taken a look at what would be needed to
support magma on pharo a few years ago. Chris always told us he uses it
professionally on squeak and has not enough capacity to keep up with
changes in pharo without having a customer/maintainer for it. Twice a year
or so someone asks about magma on pharo and takes a look. AFAIK there are
no real obstacles to a port, but magma uses a lot of deep implementation
specifics that will take an experienced smalltalker to deal with, and a lot
of mailing list archeology as pharo changed a lot since magma worked on
pharo last
Idealistic / naive question: is there a test suite for magma on squeak?
Is it hard to port just this test suite as the first step to pharo?
Stephan
