On Mar 19, 2013, at 3:55 PM, Robert Shiplett <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1988 MS QuickHelp ( in what was THEN called QuickHelp ) allowed user
> annotations in the Help ;-) QuickBasic / Quick C with Assembler
> Borland C++ for OS/2 still remains my fave enviro as I could use it for
> compiling Large DOS programs to be called by Prolog ( I was PROLOG before
> Smalltalk ;-)
>
> I will try to remember to post offending snippets if I hit any more of them
> as I go about with my "Be-A-Neophyte" in the bowels hat/chapeau on my haid
> ... with a phare on my casque as all good speliologists do it ... ;-)
>
You know, it is very hard to fix things if people don't say what is broken…
Marcus
>
> On 19 March 2013 11:33, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robert,
>
> On 19 Mar 2013, at 13:10, Robert Shiplett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Could you or someone on team look at the code in "examples" of Step 3 of
> > the Announcements "book" in the HelpBrowser ?
> >
> > This has caused emerg in linux x86 on an Atom netbook and Win7 64-bit HoPr
> > Sp1 on an i7 with the 2.0 release ... not the intended result ...
> >
> > I have the silly idea that in a "base" release of a 2.0 St that any
> > neophyte should be able to trust code 1) to be an exemplar of St best
> > practices 2) not to cause newbie panic [ I well remember my first couple of
> > days with Smalltalk/PM on OS/2 1.3 ( ? surely not OS/2 2.0 ) after being so
> > pleased with MS QuickHelp for MS DOS "Quick C with Assembler" ;-) ] ( to
> > loop from '87 Zenith Eazy PC 512k to 2009 Asus EeePC 900A ;-)
>
> Smalltalk is one of the ultimate malleable systems: you can literally change
> everything, including the whole infrastructure the system is built on. So
> yes, you can shoot yourself in the foot.
>
> On the other hand, I agree that Pharo should be as stable as possible: the VM
> should not crash and a proper exception and debugger should always pop up. [
> But again, the debugger and exception system are implemented in Smalltalk and
> you can change/break them ].
>
> Maybe you could provide the actual code snippet ?
>
> Sven
>
> --
> Sven Van Caekenberghe
> http://stfx.eu
> Smalltalk is the Red Pill
>
>
>
