I understand the sense of your words. And I agree with the need of a more easy to understand/extend system......I think that is a thing we need in these days, may be with some helper tools, I don't know, but I hear a lot of times people saying "No, I had a look to (put here Squeak/Pharo/Dolphin/other flavour) but was not able of develop anything".
I know most of this sensation has to do with knowledgment about OO technology, but still if we can have a lower intro barrier, may be better for a lot of people (myself included of course.... in topics as .... Morphic :) ). Just my thoughts. Another forever newbie: Germán :) 2011/1/29 Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]>: > Hi guys > > Some days ago we were chatting with igor and he made an interesting remark > about a kind of hidden philosophy > behind pharo: the idea that we systematically want to make the system better. > In fact I realized that what we are doing is to make a system nice, robust > and powerful so that everybody can use > to realize their goals. But we want to have a system where not only smart > guys can manage to do something with it but also > less talented people like me (I know that some of you will say but stef you > are good, I'm a newbie in a lot of domains but > I learn fast if I can get a chance to avoid to bump on the walls). I want a > system that let me learn from itself. > I think that lot of things fall naturally in place from this vision > (documentation, oo practices - not having car inheriting from wheel, tests > comments, adequate abstractions, modularity). I want a system that everybody > can nicely build his own software. > So in short I want pharo to be like a nice garden with greenhouses for > building new garden with tools versus a jungle where > only skilled adventurers can make it through. > > Stef >
