Yes Eliot very good suggestions, I am not very familiar with the history or what Pharo adds to the Smalltalk syntax. I welcome any addition to my text , correction, modification. I am open to everything. Just post your text here and I will add it to the website.
I am already in contact with esteban he likes my idea too and he said he can take the draft and integrate it inside the current new website for Pharo. Of course I would love it first if you the experienced Pharo developers improve my text so we have a very good quality website not only for begineers but also experienced coders. Class library section as third section sounds excellent idea, please if you can give me a paragraph or anyone with experience on this. I try to add anything I know about Pharo but unfortunately there is still much I don't know. Regarding other Pharo libraries they will go to the third page "The Enviroment" together with Live coding , the power of debugger and of course a basic description for the image format. Dont worry about the debugger, I decided to have a big section about it in "The Enviroment" page. Of course I can still mention it in the IDE page. On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Eliot Miranda <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
