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Pharo: pure object-oriented programming language

23 points by based2 11y ago

JadeNB 11y ago
Just a tiny bit of background, since I thought to myself "Pharo—where have I seen that name before?" This is an implementation of Smalltalk. I thought that it was the new name for Squeak (http://squeak.org http://squeak.org), but apparently it's rather a fork: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharo#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharo#History .
- masukomi 11y ago
  It's basically Squeak with a UI for adults. And for those still unsure, NO Pharo is NOT a language. Smalltalk is the language, Pharo is the particular implementation of the language, but smalltalk is much more than just a language, it's an entire environment within which to create.
analognoise 11y ago
There is a MOOC for Pharo right now: https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/inria/41010/session01/about https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/inria/41010/session01/about Videos in French with English subtitles. I am trying to learn it; I'm looking for good resources to make a GUI, if anyone knows of one please drop me a line!
phantom_oracle 11y ago
Is SmallTalk/Pharo more concise/readable compared to Python? The website shows 0 examples of actual code that one can read through.
- atemerev 10y ago
  No. But it is immensely enlightening. Spend 2-3 days learning the basics and your programming life will never be the same.
  - spdionis 10y ago
    Your comment sounds like pure marketing. Give us at least some arguments please.
    - atemerev 10y ago
      — The app you develop and the IDE is a single persistent image. On deployment, you can strip away the IDE part. — This means: no source files (code is stored as OO dataset), no need to save / recompile / etc. — No keywords. All control flow is modeled as methods. Like: (a > b) ifTrue: doSomething else: doSomethingElse. — Everything is dynamic and hackable. Want to redefine the meaning of true and false? Want to change inheritance hierarchy at runtime? Want to write self-modifying code? Be my guest. For everything, source code is accessible and modifiable. At runtime (there is no compile time). And much more.
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- i_feel_great 10y ago
  Sven van Cheeseburgers site has great code examples: https://medium.com/concerning-pharo https://medium.com/concerning-pharo

23 points by based2 11y ago

Just a tiny bit of background, since I thought to myself "Pharo—where have I seen that name before?" This is an implementation of Smalltalk. I thought that it was the new name for Squeak (http://squeak.org http://squeak.org), but apparently it's rather a fork: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharo#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharo#History .

masukomi 11y ago
It's basically Squeak with a UI for adults. And for those still unsure, NO Pharo is NOT a language. Smalltalk is the language, Pharo is the particular implementation of the language, but smalltalk is much more than just a language, it's an entire environment within which to create.

analognoise 11y ago

There is a MOOC for Pharo right now: https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/inria/41010/session01/about https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/inria/41010/session01/about Videos in French with English subtitles. I am trying to learn it; I'm looking for good resources to make a GUI, if anyone knows of one please drop me a line!

phantom_oracle 11y ago

Is SmallTalk/Pharo more concise/readable compared to Python? The website shows 0 examples of actual code that one can read through.

atemerev 10y ago
No. But it is immensely enlightening. Spend 2-3 days learning the basics and your programming life will never be the same.
- spdionis 10y ago
  Your comment sounds like pure marketing. Give us at least some arguments please.
  - atemerev 10y ago
    — The app you develop and the IDE is a single persistent image. On deployment, you can strip away the IDE part. — This means: no source files (code is stored as OO dataset), no need to save / recompile / etc. — No keywords. All control flow is modeled as methods. Like: (a > b) ifTrue: doSomething else: doSomethingElse. — Everything is dynamic and hackable. Want to redefine the meaning of true and false? Want to change inheritance hierarchy at runtime? Want to write self-modifying code? Be my guest. For everything, source code is accessible and modifiable. At runtime (there is no compile time). And much more.
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i_feel_great 10y ago
Sven van Cheeseburgers site has great code examples: https://medium.com/concerning-pharo https://medium.com/concerning-pharo