On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 9:54 AM horrido <horrido.hobb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> All of these are good ideas. But they deviate from my vision. At any rate, > my > competition idea was a big hit in Salta, and I am committed to moving > forward with it. > > Since nobody has stepped up to the plate, David Buck will try to find time > to code the competition. However, progress will be slow because of his busy > schedule. > > And since David is not familiar with Pharo, we'll have to do the > competition > in VisualWorks, after all. Perhaps in the next edition of the James > Robertson Memorial Programming Competition (hopefully in 2021 for the > United > States), someone will port the VisualWorks code over to Pharo (hint, hint). > > Hi Richard, Please note that for the people that put the money might not be the same doing it in a commercial Smalltalk rather than an open-source one. Sure, most commercial Smalltalks do offer open source licenses, but that's not the same as being an open source Smalltalk. So, I don't know what did you promise for the competition, but if it was with Pharo, it may be they only want Pharo or at least an open source Smalltalk. Best, -- Mariano https://twitter.com/MartinezPeck http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
