To quote out of context — "… historically focused more on creative and didactic experimentation than software engineering and industrial use…". "A Critical Ana

To quote out of context — "… historically focused more on creative and didactic experimentation than software engineering and industrial use…". "A Critical Analysis of String APIs: the Case of Pharo" https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01651250/document https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01651250/document ---- For CRUD stuff, PHP & Notepad will probably be OK. For other stuff, local type inference does make a difference. So does the widespread availability of free-as-in-beer source code libraries.