Re: [Pharo-users] Why Pharo?

2016-09-25 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
Ah I missed that, I stand corrected. Still not surprising. On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 7:27 PM Tudor Girba wrote: > Hi, > > > On Sep 25, 2016, at 6:16 PM, Dimitris Chloupis > wrote: > > > > yes all I did is to open the sources file in a text editor and

Re: [Pharo-users] Why Pharo?

2016-09-25 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
Wow I am surprised C++ is so popular "* The larger the code base, the less contributors and activity." sounds reasonable but I will assume here that larger code base means more users since its more likely to have more features. But for contributing to code yeah people tend to avoid complex

Re: [Pharo-users] Why Pharo?

2016-09-25 Thread Tudor Girba
Hi, > On Sep 25, 2016, at 6:16 PM, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: > > yes all I did is to open the sources file in a text editor and see which one > was the last line, that means it includes empty lines too. So 500k sound > normal to me. > > Personally as a user I rarely

Re: [Pharo-users] Why Pharo?

2016-09-25 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
yes all I did is to open the sources file in a text editor and see which one was the last line, that means it includes empty lines too. So 500k sound normal to me. Personally as a user I rarely care about the size because I rarely care to modify the existing image . For me its more important to

Re: [Pharo-users] Why Pharo?

2016-09-25 Thread Tudor Girba
Hi, > On Sep 25, 2016, at 2:01 PM, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: > > Totally agree with the slides apart from "Pharo is Small" , the syntax may be > but the whole environment last time I checked was 700k lines of code > which is huge for a dynamic language. Of course that is

Re: [Pharo-users] Why Pharo?

2016-09-25 Thread Stephan Eggermont
On 25-09-16 13:42, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: Any chance you would like to submit it too 'Concerning Pharo' publication [https://medium.com/concerning-pharo] ? Just send a submission and I would love to add it. Sure. How does that work? I'm new to medium. Do you need to add me as a writer?

Re: [Pharo-users] Why Pharo?

2016-09-25 Thread Ben Coman
Thanks Stephan & Diego. Nice to read. I liked the term "sea of objects" cheers -ben On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Stephan Eggermont wrote: > I finally found the time to put the slides and narrative together > >

Re: [Pharo-users] Why Pharo?

2016-09-25 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
Totally agree with the slides apart from "Pharo is Small" , the syntax may be but the whole environment last time I checked was 700k lines of code, which is huge for a dynamic language. Of course that is far from bad at least for me, I love powerful environments over minimal solutions. You

Re: [Pharo-users] Why Pharo?

2016-09-25 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
Hi Stephan, > On 25 Sep 2016, at 13:07, Stephan Eggermont wrote: > > I finally found the time to put the slides and narrative together > > https://medium.com/@stephan_32833/pharo-50c66685913c#.jeou548z7 > > Stephan Great article, super cool slides, well done. I especially

[Pharo-users] Why Pharo?

2016-09-25 Thread Stephan Eggermont
I finally found the time to put the slides and narrative together https://medium.com/@stephan_32833/pharo-50c66685913c#.jeou548z7 Stephan

Re: [Pharo-users] Essential Documentation

2016-09-25 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
The documentation of pharo currently is much better than documentation for open source projects of similar size. Do not expect full or large documentation with such small community or class comments. "See and discover yourself" is the approach to coding at large because in most cases whether you

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] [ANN] FFI Tutorial, Pharo5 / Libclang

2016-09-25 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
this is super good… thanks for doing this. once finished I would like to use it as tutorial reference :) cheers, Esteban > On 24 Sep 2016, at 19:25, Ben Coman wrote: > > hi all, > > Just announcing that I'm writing a series of posts on using FFI in > Pharo 5 to