Hi Frank, Please be more polite with people that contribute open software that you have the option of actually playing with at no cost (other than time). Saying that the people from around here lack skills is an unnecessary remark and I am sure you can write more positive messages. Beside creating a nicer atmosphere, being polite also pays off in the long term as you tend to get better reaction and support from people.
Back to the original subject, PharoJS is an external project that is kindly developed by people that want to explore a path that you actually seem eager to try. I would suggest restarting the conversation with describing the exact steps you undertook and explaining where the error is (The screenshots you send do not seem to show any error) and ask for guidelines. Now, is documentation an issue in general. Of course, it is. And if you care about it, we would very much welcome a contribution from you in that area, or any other area you choose to. Cheers, Doru > On Aug 13, 2017, at 4:46 PM, Frank-B <[email protected]> wrote: > > As recommended here: > http://forum.world.st/Anybody-using-Orca-Smalltalk-to-JavaScript-td4960519.html > by @Serge, I loaded the code and tried to run it. > > But, I almost tend to say "as usual", *it fails at first try*! > > I "did" the code in the Playground window but nothing happens, no code is > written into the selected directories. When I do "inspect it", I get a > window (see screenshots), which does not really tell me either, what has > happened (due to my lack of Pharo knowledge). > > Despite my over 20 years of full-time Smalltalk development, I have NOT any > experience with either Squeak nor Pharo and most of my attempts to use them > were very frustrating. > > Also, I do not feel like trying around, if and because: > - even the very first test fails immediately > - there is no meaningful documentation available > - the classes I looked at were all undocumented (for me, a 100% no-go, never > ever acceptable) > > And then, of course, also the test cases fail, because there is nothing in > the diretories, where some earlier output was expected. > > Pardon, but professionality and confidence causing systems look very > different too me. I am writing this with sadness, because it is certainly > not my first such experience in the Squeak/Pharo area. > > There are some very bright people engaged here, but for some reason many of > them lack some important aspects to be called professionals. > > Just FYI: My very first application software, an "ERP" system, which I > started developing more than 35 years ago in horrible Basic, is still > feeding a company (not mine) with >25 people as their sole product and has a > couple of hundred business users. Some of my former staff is still working > there and they said, this is only possible because I did force them > "dictatorially" to document / comment every single line of code. In the > beginning, they hated me for that. Today they are very thanksful. > > P.S. I DO have a very fast horse, because this is what one needs when > telling the truth - in these days when truth is the worst "hate crime". > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/PharoJS-crashes-at-first-try-tp4960686.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com “Software has no shape. Actually, it has no one shape. It has many."
