Hi stefan I disagree with the C integration. This is still not really good in Pharo and I agree with Jimmie. Now for the documentation when did you send an help documentation for any part of the system? Or a bug fix? I find quite funny that people always talk but few are doing. We welcome comments/examples help.
Stef >> Igor >> >> We should face it: the FFI and Alien... are not that simple. Laurent spent >> time to try to cnnect to libs and it did >> not work. So we should really improve that aspect. >> Igor not everbody is able to code in assembler for nativeboost. >> So NB is probably a good insfrastructure but not ready for consumption for >> everybody. >> The interaction with C should be improved :) >> >> Stef > > No, Stef, you didn't get it! > It is documentation which needs to be improved in the first place. > Documentation and its presentation. You know another reason why people love > PHP? It is an ugly and awful language, but absolutely everything you ever > want to do is covered in the docs, because people actually add examples and > comments. > > And frankly, you book efforts are certainly interesting, but far from being > as visible and as accessible as online docs of other languages. That's what > Smalltalk sucks at, accessible online documentation. People do google when > they have a problem. If it does not pop up on the first page, it does not > exists. > > My impression of Smalltalk documentation is, it is non-existing. I usually do > not even care to google, because it is unlikely that I find something. > Instead I ask people. (And if you look at the traffic on the mailing list, > thats not just me) > That's a community issue, a problem of culture. I would never think about > asking anyone if I have a problem with Python or PHP. I know everything is > just a few google hits away. > > Ah, and tooling of course... > > > > -- > Stefan Marr > Software Languages Lab > Vrije Universiteit Brussel > Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium > http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr > Phone: +32 2 629 2974 > Fax: +32 2 629 3525 > >
