People here might have heard about the work of Prof Emery Berger on the causal
profiling technology.
Here's a paper presenting Coz, a causal profiler.
https://www.sigops.org/s/conferences/sosp/2015/current/2015-Monterey/printable/090-curtsinger.pdf
They have also release a profiler for Python
This may seem a little over simplistic, but the basics of what NumPy and Pandas
offer can be achieved with the standard Smalltalk collection hierarchy. If your
data fits in memory, then Pharo will handle the job. If not, then GemStone may
do the trick.
That said, there’s a bunch of quite
Hello,
In response to my email below, I received 5 interesting responses. I thank
those people for writing-in.
Here is my take on what I've understood and why I am still hesitant to go along.
My comments on those responses are further below, but, at the moment, let me
explain my situation.
I
Hello,
I hope everyone is doing well. I am new to Pharo but not to programming. I have
a background in Python, and Javascript mostly. I mostly use Python due to the
data, plotting, and math libraries.
But after toying a little with Pharo, the language I came to appreciate its
beauty of it and
Hey Tim,
> On 15 Jan 2023, at 4:59 am, Tim Mackinnon wrote:
>
> In fact Boolean logic follows suit. This has far reaching implications which
> just lead to beautiful, compact, readable code.
This is one of the first things I introduce new Smalltalkers to, typically
after the question “How do
This question comes up every few years - and it’s a good one to revisit,
particularly in a new year.
You’ve already had a few good answers - and I’m sure you will get a few more.
Of the languages you cite - I’ve tried 2 of them (C# and Swift) - and they are
just too complicated. They don’t
Hi Mayuresh,
It's not about what you can do, but it's about how you do it.
The language and the community culture have a huge influence on the way we
build software.
They have consequences not only at the implementation level, but also at the
design level.
The Pharo language and its main
Hello,
This isn't a mail intended to troll this community.
I am genuinely curious about what would be the type of use cases which would be
exemplary for Pharo?
Now-a-days, anything one could have accomplished solely with Smalltalk (and
hence Pharo) can be accomplished with a number of modern
