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>Why does knowing who else is using something have any impact on your ability to love it? Sounds like it's just a motivation problem perhaps? Not making a valu
by ramesh31 5y ago
>Why does knowing who else is using something have any impact on your ability to love it? Sounds like it's just a motivation problem perhaps?
Not making a value judgement. I agree that it doesn't need any more reason to exist than for its own sake. But I'm just genuinely curious what advantages Pharo has that make it useful in a professional setting.
- rscho 5y ago> what advantages Pharo has that make it useful in a professional setting. Pretty much, the ultimate quick-and-dirty prototyping engine, especially for GUI projects. In the sense that you're prototyping largely from scratch, not cobbling myriads of huge libs. So, ball of mud. Not brick wall.
- igouy 5y agoSculpting clay. Funny thing. Back-in-the-day Smalltalks were attractive because the source code was included to be studied and re-used (When that wasn't true of many other development tools).