I think that scripting support is essential for any interpreted language and if Pharo had it, its community would grow much faster. Let's say, I learned now how to use HTML parsing in the GUI version of Pharo. I went ahead and created my own class (or set of classes) in the image which can say retrieve a dollar rate from some bank web page. Now I should be able to run Pharo in a "batch mode" saying something like... "./pharo -batch "DollarRateInfo :getAndSendEmail '[email protected]". This way I could schedule this command using cron to send me this dollar rate via email every day at 2 pm. Having this functionality I could really spend more time using Pharo for different needs and get better at using it.
I don't think it should be too hard to implement (please correct me if I am wrong). In the batch mode pharo would start in a "headless mode", read some input from a standard input (or from command line), execute it in a 'hidden' Workspace and send the output of the evaluation to the standard output. Thank you, Andrei On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected] > wrote: > unfortunately I did not find the time to continue working on it but I would > love to. > > On May 12, 2010, at 9:50 PM, Gabriel Brunstein wrote: > > > What about coral? > > http://scg.unibe.ch/wiki/projects/bachelorsprojects/coral > > > > 2010/5/12 Andrei Stebakov <[email protected]> > > Is it possible to start Pharo headless and execute some command (say to > get some info from a web page)? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >
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