Re: [Pharo-dev] Executive Programming

2018-04-10 Thread Ben Coman
I guess one thing important to C-level executives are relationships between people so the old reliable Contact Book might work. This could be done in several levels: * basic - addresses & birthdays colleagues & family * intermediate - interface with external services to automatically send email *

Re: [Pharo-dev] Executive Programming

2018-04-10 Thread Ben Coman
On 11 April 2018 at 02:55, askoh wrote: > Ben: > > I have been thinking along the same lines. > Smalltalk is my PersonalOS. > Nice idea, but its a long step beyond what I had in mind. I don't expect an executive to be using Pharo daily. Their daily time is better spent

Re: [Pharo-dev] Executive Programming

2018-04-10 Thread askoh
Ben: I have been thinking along the same lines. Smalltalk is my PersonalOS. Instead of *.bat or *.sh files, I would use Smalltalk to call OS commands directly in methods to do what I want in the OS while using Smalltalk to do the logic. PersonalOS should be able to run on multiple OS's using

Re: [Pharo-dev] Executive Programming

2018-04-07 Thread Stephane Ducasse
Ben what would be interesting to build is a case: what a Boss would like to code? Because once we have this case we could model it and have a DSL (pharo) to script it. Stef On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 8:36 AM, Ben Coman wrote: > This article about the "Mining Industry's