> 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 you lost me. ;) What I just wanted to say is that we want to build a cool system = nice, easy to use and robust. Stef >> 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 >> > >
