Hi,
On 30/12/16 03:47, Dimitris Chloupis wrote:
What I have found is that pharo is excellent as a central nervous system , Brain + nerves , for an application. Because not only the language is simple, but mostly because of live coding and ability of the IDE to deal with complex code and isolate bugs.
I think that the Pharo approach could be something like the Cyborgs one of Star Trek. Attach to a preexisting substrate and extend it :-P. Seriously, having Pharo to talk better with the external non-Pharo/Smalltalk native technologies and ideas could help to bring this unpaired live coding experience to a lot of people: hacktivist, journalist, philosophers, musicians, and non-live coding programmers. My uses of this approach are trying to bridge Pharo with non-programmers cultures at our local hackerspace, and is giving very good outcomes.
Live coding is pretty much the bread and butter for us graphics programmers (I use Pharo together with Unreal and Blender) because it allows us to test things on the fly without having to worry about compile times or syntax errors or crashes or whatever can interrupt us from "being in the zone". Pharo is without exaggeration the best live coding language out there by very far from others except Lisp which is the basis of Smalltalk and where we have borrowed many ideas.
I would add that live coding is the bread and butter of pretty much everyone who is making exploratory computing and prototyping in diverse fields, where you use computers to understand fuzzy problems.
Cheers, Offray
