[Pharo-users] [OT] (slightly) What makes other dialects "enjoyable" for you? (WAS: difference between double dispatch...)

Hi, Time to time I hear people like Richard saying “Dolphin is the dialect most beautiful Smalltalk he used” and others praising it in different levels. As Pharo “architect” (or whatever I am, but at least I’m sure I have to pay attention to the IDE :P), I’m interested to know what elements of

Re: [Pharo-users] difference between double dispatch and the method explains here

On this laptop I have - Squeak - Pharo - GNU Smalltalk - VisualAge Smalltalk - VisualWorks Smalltalk - Smalltalk/X plus some oddballs like susie, amber, and CSOM. On another laptop I have - Strongtalk - Dolphin And of course I have my own 'astc' Smalltalk-via-C compiler. I have to say that

Re: [Pharo-users] Richard Kenneth Eng is NOT Mr. Smalltalk

As a point of honour, there are statements here that I cannot leave unchallenged. "but before that, he showed up without any Smalltalk background..." This is an unacceptable smear. Without any Smalltalk background? In 2007, I wrote a Seaside application in Squeak for a psychiatrist acquaintance o

Re: [Pharo-users] Richard Kenneth Eng is NOT Mr. Smalltalk

I thought it was interesting at the recent Pharo Days that there was an attendee from the clinical medical field - who had heard about Smalltalk and wanted to learn more. When we asked him where he heard about it, he referenced these Mr Smalltalk medium articles in question - so I guess there’s

Re: [Pharo-users] Richard Kenneth Eng is NOT Mr. Smalltalk

On 2019-04-09 1:17 p.m., horrido wrote: BTW, I've also said many unkind things about Python. And C++. And Scala and Swift. But I'm being criticized for what I've said about JavaScript? Really??? There is certainly no hint of bias here. Richard, you keep doing what you're doing; that guy doesn'

Re: [Pharo-users] ARM vm limitations ?

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 8:26 AM Albrecht Baur via Pharo-users < pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> wrote: > Hi, I'd like to play around with pharo on ARM devices (like a > HummingBoard, the ones from ODROID or one of the beagleboards). But I am > not sure if I have to take care of the ARM architecture v

Re: [Pharo-users] Richard Kenneth Eng is NOT Mr. Smalltalk

BTW, I've also said many unkind things about Python. And C++. And Scala and Swift. But I'm being criticized for what I've said about JavaScript? Really??? There is certainly no hint of bias here. Michael J. Zeder wrote > Hey Ben, > > I leave it with this answer, as you suggested, thank you fo

Re: [Pharo-users] Richard Kenneth Eng is NOT Mr. Smalltalk

I just accidentally came across this thread. I feel I have to provide some clarifications... First of all, the sobriquet "Mr. Smalltalk" started way back in October of 2016 with this article . It was meant as a marketing gim

[Pharo-users] Screencasts on Debugger driven development

Some work Vincent Blondeau and I have been doing on the Taskbar has inspired me to make some screencasts showing how to do debugger driven development, and take the first steps towards refactoring the TaskBarMorph, driven by tests. Part 1 https://vimeo.com/329317634 Part 2 https://vimeo.com/32936