Hi Sergi, On 13 Jul 2014, at 15:05, Sergi Reyner <[email protected]> wrote:
> It may have been mentioned already, but number 7 is wrong, is states: > > "7. Sum of the first 64 primes" > > when it actually is: > > "7. Sum of the primes not larger than 64" > > > Cheers, > Sergi I fixed that, thank you ! Sven > 2014-07-12 17:02 GMT+01:00 Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]>: > > On 08 Jul 2014, at 21:53, kilon alios <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ruby and Pearl look very ugly to me. > > > > Programming languages are primarily personal preference. > > > > Pharo advantages to me at least are far more than live image, its live > > coding which by the way is different from live image, the IDE tools, the > > factor that is all Pharo objects even when you do assembly coding inside > > Pharo , the libraries of course and last but not least the community. > > > > I could name also thousands more advantages that I have found in the > > implementation that I really like as well others I don't. Devil , as they > > say, is in the details. Details are everything , generalisations have > > little meaning. > > > > Lovely article Sven , keep them coming. I think Pharo would definitely > > benefit from a cookbook working as a database where pharo coders can use to > > find example code the easy way. > > Thanks, Kilon. > > > But even articles like this can help a lot, I just wish that there was a > > Pharo wiki to keep these links and see them buried in Pharo news. > > Yes, I think we need more/better places to link everything together. A > curated reading list maybe. > > > PS: Sven I am making my own Pharo book called Pharo Universe where I want > > to put things that are not part of PBE or PFTE which can be find here > > https://github.com/kilon/Pharo-Universe and here > > https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/PharoUniverse/ . May I have > > permission to use your articles as chapters for my book ? I will fully > > credit you and link back to your blog posts of course :) > > I know you are doing a lot of effort with respect to documentation and that > is really great and important. I am not sure that copying articles that were > not meant to be part of a book or larger whole is a good solution, for either > party, it will give too much repetition and not a lot of coherence. > > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Paul Davidowitz <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > Very nice, except all this could be done in Ruby, also elegantly. > > The Smalltalk advantage is the live image, and that's where the focus > > should be. > > > > > > >
