> On 10 Jan 2016, at 08:37, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> if GTdebugger becomes the default debugger it means that our mooc will be 
> already obsolete before getting finished.
> It means that we will be forced to
>    have separate installers
>    different web pages explaining not to use Pharo 50 but a strange version
>    it means that people will report bugs on a different system
> And we will have to spent time on that instead of the rest.
> 
> And we will really thank the Pharo community for its great vision and care 
> about our effort.
> This is more than 6 months that we are working on it and we have problably 
> yet another month of work.
> Now just writing this makes me sick.
> 
> So if the only respect about the work of other people is like that then I 
> will just think a lot about my
> engagement. If this happens I can tell you that you will have a hard time to 
> ask me to put energy into
> pharo in the future.
> 
> Now if this makes you feel easy you can think that I'm tired. This poor 
> stephane is working too much and
> is overacting. Think that if this helps you to feel good. Really.
> 
> Now what pissed me off the most is that I'm **TEACHING** to L2 L3 and M1 
> students
> This year I was teaching to
>    Prague
>    Annecy
>    Lviv
>    Lome
>    Dakar
>    Saint louis
>    Yaounde
> 
> and when I say that the student are afraid by the default debugger, they are 
> afraid also by
> a more complex one. Who among the people deciding to not put this debugger by 
> default
> can show me that he did one lecture on newbies over the last two years? For 
> real?
> 
> So be right and go ahead: because you know what is good for the end 
> programmer.
> I asked five times to understand who need _thisContext and _stakc top and so 
> far I got zero answer.
> It will help me to take a break from Pharo.

I use both thisContext and stackTop regularly. thisContext maybe once a wee, 
stackTop probably multiple times a day.

> 
> Stef
> 
> PS: I 'm not in the Pharo board anymore because I have to do something else
> 
> 
> 


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