Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo and OpenMP

2016-01-30 Thread David Allouche
> On 26 Jan 2016, at 18:24, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: > > First my apology for the very long post but I think this will interest a lot > of people. I found that intriguing. I wonder whether the lack of response means: The message was too long. Nobody cares. It's too wrong to respond. It's too

Re: [Pharo-users] Use cases for methods with optional parameters

2016-01-29 Thread David Allouche
> On 28 Jan 2016, at 21:55, stepharo wrote: > Le 25/1/16 09:32, David Allouche a écrit : >> - Morphic >> - Morph >> - addAlarm:*at: >> - addAlarm:*after: >> - startStepping* >> - subMorphNamed:* >> >> - Morphic >> - MenuMorph >>

Re: [Pharo-users] Use cases for methods with optional parameters

2016-01-25 Thread David Allouche
> On 20 Jan 2016, at 16:08, Damien Cassou wrote: > > Before starting to implement anything, I need to know if it makes sense. > If you want to help me, please send me all the use cases you have by > giving me: > > - the library name (and URL if not in Catalog), or "pharo" if it's in > Pharo >

Re: [Pharo-users] Dynamic Typing > Static Typing? « games.greggman.com

2016-01-20 Thread David Allouche
> On 20 Jan 2016, at 19:27, Jimmie Houchin wrote: > > I will not argue whether or not Smalltalk and Lisp were right all along. > However, the fact that Smalltalk and Lisp are where they are is not simply a > matter of technical merit. There were many, many, political decisions made by > the o

Re: [Pharo-users] Updated Pharo by Example

2016-01-18 Thread David Allouche
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Re: [Pharo-users] Memory mapped files and Pharo (aka Unreal Engine 4 integration with Pharo)

2016-01-18 Thread David Allouche
> On 17 Jan 2016, at 22:18, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: > > Pipes are actually slower than sockets (local UNIX sockets that is) and I > dont need sockets if I am using shared memory. > > I could create an event que and not allow direct access to shared memory, > this way I make sure everything

Re: [Pharo-users] Memory mapped files and Pharo (aka Unreal Engine 4 integration with Pharo)

2016-01-17 Thread David Allouche
First a disclaimer, I do not have a lot of experience with inter-process communication (I have a bit, though), and no direct experience with mmaped files. > On 17 Jan 2016, at 17:41, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: > > 1) Do you think this is possible with the current Pharo ? > > 2) Will I be limite

Re: [Pharo-users] I am David Allouche, let me introduce myself.

2016-01-14 Thread David Allouche
>> I can't remember who famous said something like "The only languages >> worth learning are the ones that changes the way you think about >> programming..." and I found that with Smalltalk & Pharo. Oh, I just found it. Epigram 19 by Alan J. Perlis. http://pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/

Re: [Pharo-users] Understanding the role of the sources file

2016-01-13 Thread David Allouche
first widely deployed language implementation to use a tracing interpreter to JIT a language with latent typing. I believe all the other major Javascript implementations have followed suite. This is also the approach used by PyPy. Java and .Net have static typing, so they do not require a trac

Re: [Pharo-users] I am David Allouche, let me introduce myself.

2016-01-13 Thread David Allouche
Thank you everyone for the kind responses. I will answer some of the questions and suggestions here. > To get faster to the intellectual stimulation, pick a task / project and > start asking questions. And have fun :). That is good advice, but right now I think I will just explore the system,

Re: [Pharo-users] Understanding the role of the sources file

2016-01-13 Thread David Allouche
> On 13 Jan 2016, at 16:27, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: > > "The virtual machine (VM) provides the environment where the Pharo system > lives. It is different for each operating system and hardware architecture, > and runs as a machine language executable in the operating system. It > implements

Re: [Pharo-users] Understanding the role of the sources file

2016-01-13 Thread David Allouche
Hey, Since I just recently figured that stuff out, my perspective might be useful. I do not think it is a good idea to push external VCS too much at this point. They are important to collaboration, so they should be mentioned, but they add a lot of complexity. Taking into account the feedback

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo Docs website broken

2016-01-10 Thread David Allouche
Pharo developer will > never have a look to such a static documentation. > You can browse the class and the related methods very easily inside > the Pharo image, without relying on an external tool. > > Regards, > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 1:08 PM, David Allouche wrote: >&g

[Pharo-users] I am David Allouche, let me introduce myself.

2016-01-10 Thread David Allouche
Hello folks. Some people have already seen me on Twitter and Slack, but I believe there might be some people on the mailing list that did not see those conversations. As I have done on Slack, I am writing this introduction so people have an idea where I come from and what is my business with Ph

[Pharo-users] Pharo Docs website broken

2016-01-10 Thread David Allouche
Hello, It seems the pharodocs website is broken. Pages for classes are rendered, but the documentation does not display the messages, only their docstrings. That makes it quite unusable. http://files.pharo.org/doc/4.0/#packageList=package.html&classList=package/Kernel.html&classView=class/Proto

[Pharo-users] Ctrl-tab not working

2016-01-05 Thread David Allouche
> On 5 Jan 2016, at 15:03, Thierry Goubier wrote: > > 2016-01-05 14:42 GMT+01:00 David Allouche <mailto:da...@allouche.net>>: > Strangely, I am not able get any response from Ctrl-TAB, which is essential > to tab out of a text widget. > > Looking with the insp

Re: [Pharo-users] Browsing shortucts

2016-01-05 Thread David Allouche
Strangely, I am not able get any response from Ctrl-TAB, which is essential to tab out of a text widget. Looking with the inspector, it looks like it SHOULD do what I need, but it appears that the keyboard event does not get there. How can I get a transcript output for every detected keyboard e