[Pharo-users] Re: [Pharo-users] Re: Sacrilegeous question : what are compelling use cases for Pharo

2023-01-16 Thread mayur...@kathe.in via Pharo-users
Hi Offray, Very kind of you to have shared links to the document: "Tracing the Dynabook". That thesis is what I will definitely read through thoroughly, even though it weighs in at 300+ pages. But, and a big but, I doubt the validity of the depth of research conducted by John W Maxwell. In the o

[Pharo-users] Causal profiling

2023-01-14 Thread mayur...@kathe.in via Pharo-users
People here might have heard about the work of Prof Emery Berger on the causal profiling technology. Here's a paper presenting Coz, a causal profiler. https://www.sigops.org/s/conferences/sosp/2015/current/2015-Monterey/printable/090-curtsinger.pdf They have also release a profiler for Python usi

[Pharo-users] Re: [Pharo-users] Sacrilegeous question : what are compelling use cases for Pharo

2023-01-14 Thread mayur...@kathe.in via Pharo-users
pportunity to berate its users/developers (this is from personal experience). Along those lines, I would also like to get an explanation from Jupiter Jones' for "how do you do an if/then?" which as he states leads to a "mind-blown" moment. Thank you, ~Mayuresh On Satu

[Pharo-users] Sacrilegeous question : what are compelling use cases for Pharo

2023-01-14 Thread mayur...@kathe.in via Pharo-users
Hello, This isn't a mail intended to troll this community. I am genuinely curious about what would be the type of use cases which would be exemplary for Pharo? Now-a-days, anything one could have accomplished solely with Smalltalk (and hence Pharo) can be accomplished with a number of modern p