On 4 April 2016 at 16:32, Thierry Goubier <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 2016-04-04 15:23 GMT+02:00 Igor Stasenko <[email protected]>: > >> >> >>> Analogies don't work. Right :) I never used Pillar and have remote ideas >> about what it does or requires. From that perspective you appeal to wrong >> person. On your place i would be asking a guy who knows Pillar innards >> about it. >> Forgive my ignorance.. but i am not omniscient. >> > > False humility doesn't work there, Igor :) > But i don't know what Pillar is. Never used it. I'm not lying here. I seen people doing something with it time to time.. but never got my eyes on it. Or would you prefer that i would pretend that i know something and can continue discussion about things related to it? Waving hands, pointing to milestones, drawing diagrams? :) > > >> >> >>> Second is: Pharo (and all smalltalks) is the place where supposedly >>> impossible stuff can be developed, simply because it takes far less lines >>> than anywhere else. No guarantees, but, at the rate we're dropping projects >>> by the side of the road (and reinventing stuff multiple times over), we >>> have manpower to spare :) >>> >>> But that is orthogonal. It is possible to do anything on turing-complete >> environment. Taking shortcuts etc etc yadda yadda. Now do such statements >> alone can bring us anywhere closer to grand goals and grand projects? >> Nope. Only hard day to day work could bring us there.. Not talks about >> how cool we are. >> > > Hard day to day work, yes. But if you make it that uninteresting, yes, I'm > sure we will never get there :) > > Okay, let me elaborate what was the whole point behind TxText project. It was part of work we were doing to migrate from old Canvas & BitBlt Morphic rendering towards vector-based rendering using Athens. Basically in a nutshell TxText is a model and rendering engine for text rendering. Does it means it can serve as a base of full-fledged word processing software in a future? Sure thing. Why not? But does it means i should care or have interest in pursuing that direction? No. It is not on my radar and not among my interests. > Regards, > > Thierry > >> > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
