Hi, I think you MUST talk to Juan Vuletich (CCed) as he is doing satellites image processing in Smalltalk.
Cheers On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
