Hi Kilon,

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 8:01 AM, kilon alios <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have further refined the About page but not I have also created
> additional pages for "language" and "ide"
> you can click on the main page on those words because they are links to
> send to you to the corresponding page or you can access these pages from
> here
>
> "The Language"
>
> http://thekilon.wix.com/pharo-about#!language/cee5
>

This is really good.  My criticism is that "invented in 1969" implies it
hasn't changed that much since then.  It has, and one of the biggest
changes was from Smalltalk-72 to Smalltalk-76.  You might instead say
something like
"conceived in 1969, and stabilizing as Smalltalk-80 in the 1980's".

One of the things I missed on first visit was the "fast moving forward"
section.  I suggest you eliminate it and put the information in the first
section.

But there are significant language developments since then:

- traits
- namespaces
- closures
- ByteArray literals
- method pragmas/method tags

and more to come:
- slots


I would replace the third section with something on the class library, that
it is large (numbers, collections, graphics, multi-media, etc, the more the
better) and mature.


>
> "The IDE"
>
> http://thekilon.wix.com/pharo-about#!ide/cfvg
>

You don't say anything about the debugger.  The debugger is of course
excellent and one of the few that allows programming in the debugger.  That
deserves a sentence or two surely.


>
>
>
> Again these are drafts WIP , with many mistake and still with room for a
> lot of improvement.
>
> The good news is that I tried the website on my mobile phone and it seems
> it works well for mobile devices too
>
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:36 PM, kilon alios <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I don't like the about page. Its still unclear what Pharo is and I have
>> to agree with the complains we are getting at reddit.
>>
>> So instead of starting a long conversation about how I would want it done
>> , I sat my ass down and made a draft of it so you can see it directly.
>>
>> Please bare in mind this is draft , I just wanted to show you my idea for
>> an About page. You can find the draft here
>>
>> http://thekilon.wix.com/pharo-about
>>
>> I think contributors should go to a seperate page called "Credit"
>>
>> I am open to comments and suggestions.
>>
>
>


-- 
best,
Eliot

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