[Pharo-users] Breaking news: Esug - Angela Bragagnolo

Thanks a lot to all of you to show all the care you had these last days and for helping this much with everything: calling ambassies, universities, directives etc. Special thanks to Gordana whom barely slept since Sunday trying and finally achieving to find the solution, and simulationeusly dealt

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Hi, Comments below ;-) On 02/04/17 04:18, Ben Coman wrote: On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 4:54 AM, Dimitris Chloupis mailto:kilon.al...@gmail.com>> wrote: Ironically and this is not April's Fool joke, Scratch has been exploding in popularity https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

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I often wonder why there isn't anyone on this list who has a super-tech-philantropist-that-would-love-to-help-up-engineer-pharo-further acquaintance (or is one). Anyone? Phil On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Ben Coman wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 4:54 AM, Dimitris Chloupis > wrote: > >

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On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 4:54 AM, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: > Ironically and this is not April's Fool joke, Scratch has been exploding > in popularity > > https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ > > https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/scratch/ > > So what Smalltalk has failed to achieve, Scratch is achievi

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Scratch still seems to have no code-grouping abstractions like subroutines or, better, functions - isn't this a rather important part of learning to code well? Having loop facilities with no GOTO in sight is a good start, but it looks incomplete all the same - with subroutines, the concepts of fac

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Scratch may be a good way to introduce basic programming concepts to total beginners, but it's hardly a substitute for a proper programming language like Smalltalk. How would you even begin to write a machine learning application or an ERP application using Scratch? I write about this in my articl

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Ironically and this is not April's Fool joke, Scratch has been exploding in popularity https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/scratch/ So what Smalltalk has failed to achieve, Scratch is achieving it now even though it was made with Smalltalk. Makes sense though, ma

[Pharo-users] Breaking News -- HPE to Open Smalltalk Billion Dollar project in 2018

Sorry to be skeptical, but as much as I admire Richard Eng's work, since it is April 1st (which is April Fool's Day in the U.S.) I am a bit skeptical of this story. :>{ I hope it's true but .. mike

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Well... I was just trying to get myself unembarrassed... but was not catch was not mine... next years I will let it run wildly and help to it. Cheers, Offray On 01/04/17 12:32, Ben Coman wrote: Too quick Offray :) Shoulda let it run... cheers -ben On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Offray Vlad

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Too quick Offray :) Shoulda let it run... cheers -ben On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote: > Ohhh... April 1st (the local date for that is Dec 28th, so it always > kind of confuse me). > > Cheers, > > Offray > > > > On 01/04/17 12:22,

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On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 12:10 AM, horrido wrote: > Smalltalk to get a second crack at the whip > second-crack-at-the-whip-ecaeb8a94533> > . By frickin' time! > > Lovely article Richard. I want to believe this is really a turning point for Smal

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Ohhh... April 1st (the local date for that is Dec 28th, so it always kind of confuse me). Cheers, Offray On 01/04/17 12:22, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote: Hi, Thanks for sharing. There is any link to the HPE site on the news about investing 1.2 billion in the R & D Research Lab?

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Hi, Thanks for sharing. There is any link to the HPE site on the news about investing 1.2 billion in the R & D Research Lab? Cheers, Offray On 01/04/17 11:10, horrido wrote: Smalltalk to get a second crack at the whip

[Pharo-users] Breaking News

Smalltalk to get a second crack at the whip . By frickin' time! -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Breaking-News-tp4940893.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive