Re: [Pharo-dev] D language

2015-12-13 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
Fair enough Whats that PyBridge you talking about ? First time I hear that. Well my own python bridge works well for what I need it for, its not that hard to bridge languages at least for some form of basic RPC. Deeper language integration would need money and multiple developers of course. As

Re: [Pharo-dev] D language

2015-12-13 Thread p...@highoctane.be
A a C++ developer, I think I can better relate to D. Yeah, Nim is nice. I asked about the PyBridge as well (as there is in OpenQwaq|Terf) but no response from Ron so far. We need more bridges, that's my long term play. Some decent cash is coming my way, so I hope that I'll be able to devote

Re: [Pharo-dev] D language

2015-12-13 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
>From a basic search it appears that D can generate dynamically linked libraries (DLL , SO, etc) which will be the easiest way to extend pharo using D. However from a very basic search I did it looks like generating dynamically linked libraries with D is not as straightforward as someone would

Re: [Pharo-dev] Unicode Support

2015-12-13 Thread stepharo
I am pretty sure that this whole discussion does more harm than good for most people's understanding of Unicode. It is best and (mostly) correct to think of a Unicode string as a sequence of Unicode characters, each defined/identified by a code point (out of 10.000s covering all languages).

Re: [Pharo-dev] D language

2015-12-13 Thread p...@highoctane.be
This is PyBridge https://github.com/itsmeront/openqwaq/tree/master/qwaqvm/src/plugins/PyBridge https://github.com/itsmeront/openqwaq/blob/master/qwaqvm/platforms/Cross/plugins/PyBridge/PyBridge.h Useful for sure, even in 32 bits. Phil On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Dimitris Chloupis

Re: [Pharo-dev] D language

2015-12-13 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
Ah ok so this is the bridge that OpenQwaq uses to communicate with Python, interesting. I was wondering if I could use this bridge when people mentioned openQwaq to me , I decided not to try because I could not figure out how it worked but now with your link its all clear. With your links you

[Pharo-dev] Interval cannot be "shuffled"

2015-12-13 Thread Alexandre Bergel
Hi! Type: (1 to: 20) shuffled and an error is raised. I have fixed this. Check: https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/17233/Interval-cannot-be-shuffled Cheers, Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu

[Pharo-dev] New web tutorial

2015-12-13 Thread stepharo
Hi guys with Olivier Auverlot we did several attempts (over the year) and we are happy to release a first draft of a web tutorial around Pharo. We ask the user to build a simple blog engine. It goes over - Mongo - Seaside - Magritte