On 20 February 2012 21:18, Frank Shearar <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20 February 2012 19:41, Guido Stepken <[email protected]> wrote: >> Am 20.02.2012 10:22, schrieb Edgar J. De Cleene: >> >> Yesterday in a response to Craig I said have a Cuis with a wiki on top and >> this .image is 5 mb and run on a “modern” G4 400 mhz PowerMac. >> >> That’s is a beauty and the power of Cuis, thanks Juan for your reduced image >> of 2 mb >> >> >> Looks nice. >> >> World menu -> appearance -> set desktop color -> Error >> >> What i - never ever - understand is, why - when Smalltalk is a reflective >> language and there are so mighty tools - like Moose - out there, able to >> search the whole codebase for possible occurrences of "message not >> understood"????? > > This is just a trivial application of the solution to the Halting > Problem (left as an exercise for the reader). > I wonder, what kind of language solves that problem better than smalltalk does? Apparently compilers can complain about using wrong type/name.. but they cannot complain about null pointer(s).. they usually crash & bail to OS :)
> Or: if you want to avoid MNU, don't use a dynamically typed language. > > frank > >> This is no personal quality problem, this is a methodical problem. In the >> whole Pharo team. "Wrong development process!" >> >> Please, again: "Develop the development process!" >> >> Have fun, Guido Stepken > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
