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> On 1 May 2020, at 14:37, Noury Bouraqadi <bouraq...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Stefen, > > Welcome to Pharo :-) > > Here are 2 tips that whould help you find your way : > - Spotter (open it with Shift+Enter). It searches the whole image for names > (classes, methods...) that include the given substring > - Finder (Menu Tools) : Allows various kinds of searches. Searching with > examples does allow finding a message that provides a given outcome given a > receiver, and parameters. > > Please note that the image does include only a small subset of what you can > do with Pharo. There's much more out there. One way to discover cool stuff, > is to visit this catalog: > https://github.com/pharo-open-documentation/awesome-pharo > > Cheers, > Noury > >> On 30 Apr 2020, at 21:00, step...@heaveneverywhere.com wrote: >> >> >> Hello friends, >> >> I’m getting started with Pharo after decades using VisualWorks and Squeak; >> it’s pretty wonderful what you all have assembled! >> >> My question is related to what we used to teach as the first law of software >> reuse: “You can’t reuse it if you can’t find it,” and the related software >> engineering "principle of least astonishment." >> >> When I fire up Pharo, the system browser presents me with a list of several >> hundred categories (from AST to Zodiac) in a system with over 8000 classes. >> The system categorization makes no sense since I don’t know the naming >> conventions and so many packages have cute but quite non-descriptive names >> (Zinc? Metacello? Calypso?). >> >> In Smalltalk-80, the class category names were organized as a 2-level >> hierarchy where the top-level were items such as Magnitudes, Collections, >> Streams, Graphics, Text, System, Tools, Files, etc. This made it easy to >> find (e.g.,) the browser source code by looking in the Tools package for the >> class category Tools-Browser. Even packages with cute names (like my own >> “Siren”), were categorized for ease of finding; e.g., the Siren classes were >> in class categories like Music-Events and Music-Magnitudes. >> >> Parsing the class category names on the first instance of $- made it >> possible to build 6-paned Browsers (called package pane browser in Squeak). >> (We acknowledged that this violates the “zero/one/infinity" rule.) Is >> something like this available for Pharo? I looked through the Calypso >> browser code and it’s so over-engineered (IMHO) that it’d take me several >> days to figure out how to implement this (it was about 1.5 pages of code in >> Smalltalk-80). >> >> If Pharo had a browser that scaled better and a >> reorganization/simplification of the class categories to use names that were >> more self-explanatory, it would be *much* easier for new users (in fact, for >> all users) to find their way around. >> >> I apologize for the stepping on toes... >> >> Stephen Pope >> >> >> -- >> >> Stephen Travis Pope Santa Barbara, California, USA >> <pastedGraphic.tiff> http://HeavenEverywhere.com >> http://FASTLabInc.com >> https://vimeo.com/user19434036/videos >> http://heaveneverywhere.com/Reflections >> >> -- >> >> >> >
