I hope I'll remember to watch it later, but this type of thing has been going on for a long time. I remember a friend of mine getting excited about a thing called Actor. There was this weird thing called Smalltalk, and these guys (Whitewater Group??) came along and "fixed" it by giving it C syntax. Not meaning to bash my friend; just pointing out how long people have been trying to take part of Smalltalk without really understanding the bulk of it.
To be fair, look no further than Croquet for some blame here. They insisted on making an immersive 3D system rather than factoring it to provide whatever level the user might want. Maybe later we can start up a group to pull their retained mode framework into Pharo to serve simulation and gaming projects. Let's leave Tweak behind though. Bill -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Igor Stasenko Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 9:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Status of Alien FFI To add some OT and concerns about Lua & really cool stuff, see this video http://vimeo.com/5254161 it looks like right now we (smalltalkers and 3D game-devs, who are certaintly ones who are on a bleeding edge of technology) are living in different dimensions, and both of us know little about each other.. what i find really frustrating. The guy who narrating the video, came to conclusion, that its cool to be able to simply copy the code snippet & run it on different host/project without recompiling C++ stuff, also mentioned that operating on entity level (by scripting particular object(s)) makes life much easier, especially when project complexity grows and grows bigger.. I just wonder , if Lua is so good for him, what would he say, when discover the smalltalk, and especially its environment, which inherently allows to work with objects in real time without edit-recompile-run cycle. :) 2009/9/21 Schwab,Wilhelm K <[email protected]>: > Good luck. For my time and money, fool me once, shame on you, ... > > Bill > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Lawson English > Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 7:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Status of Alien FFI > > Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: >> Sig, >> >> If someone finds something truly better, more power to them. I predict >> Pharo will be tough to beat though. >> >> Bill >> >> > > Not to rain on anyone's parade, but C# 4.0 is just around the corner and MS > is obviously grabbing features from everyone in existence... > > > Lawson > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
