Since some of you are newcomers to smalltalk or may be did not know the value of pharo core people here is a first draft I wrote this morning thinking about pharo
http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/PharoZen * Beauty in the code, beauty in the comments * Simplicity is beautiful * Communication is key * Classes structure our vocabulary * Messages are our vocabulary * Polymorphism is our esperanto * Better small polymorphic classes than a large ugly one * Tests are important but can be replaced * Abstraction and composition are our friends * Explicit is better than implicit * Magic only at the right place * Simple processes to support progress * One step at a time * There is no unimportant fix * Quality is a emerging property * A system with robust abstractions that a single person can understand Stef Please comment also on the wiki. _______________________________________________ Pharo-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-users
