Hi ben I appreciate your general attitude and I hope that you find the job you love to have.
Stef On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Raffaello Giulietti < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Ben, >> >> >> On 2017-05-03 14:56, Ben Coman wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the follow up. Glad to hear its nothing intrinsic to Pharo. >>> >>> btw, Is there somewhere in the documentation or class/method comments >>> that you believe this N-base situation should be spelled out better? >>> >>> >> >> Well, I wouldn't call the parameter of ExternalAddress>>byteAt:... >> methods a "byteOffset", as offset invariably indicates a *difference* >> between indices or addresses. Thus, I would for example expect an offset of >> 0 to refer to the first byte, whether its index is 0 or 1. >> >> This is in contrast with the Smalltalk convention that <something>At: >> selectors with numerical arguments usually mean a 1-based *index*. >> >> >> >> BTW, just for information, what is your role in the development of Pharo? >> > > For me Pharo is a dedicated hobby, doing a few hours most week nights and > longer stints on weekends. Some people love doing crosswords. I love > programming and enjoy Pharo the most. Not having any commercial time > pressures has allowed me the luxury to dive deep into areas of interest, > which is usually the lower level stuff like DelayScheduler, > semaphores/mutexes and Processes in Image & VM - but so far I've not done > anything with the JIT. > > My day job is this... https://www.linkedin.com/in/bencoman/?ppe=1 > I dream of one day using Pharo as a soft-realtime industrial automation > control system on a Beagleboard, but so far I've taken limited concrete > action towards that. > > I'm located south of the equator in Western Australia, so quite remote > from most others in the community (although I did have the pleasure of > meeting Thierry & Onil once when they were visiting family here). > > cheers -ben > > > P.S. I'll take this opportunity to mention I'm between jobs at the > moment. So I'd be happy to hear from anyone needing some odd jobs done, > while I consider my options. >
