Hello, I will print this kind of memorandum and distribute it to the students and other computing guys that are disappointed. I feel good ;-)
INRia's guys you probably have exciting discussions that permit such "way of life" (Pharo lifestyle). Herve On 29 janv. 2011, at 13:44, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
