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• notwhereyouare 3y ago
  I work for one of the companies on that list and can attest we still use smalltalk/pharo.
  • sigzero 3y ago
    Very cool. Smalltalk is one of those "I'd like to learn" languages for me.
    • zabzonk 3y ago
      it would take you about half an hour. absolute minimal syntax and fairly obvious semantics. of course, learning how to use it properly might take a little longer :-)
      • melvinroest 3y ago
        I disagree with this. You need to know more method signatures to write any program in it. For example things like: someCollection do: [ :someArgument | "some code" ]. Stuff like that. It's still a lot less than most languages though. I found that this really helps [1] and I find it more representative of how difficult the language actually is. The postcard example is a bit contrived. [1] https://gist.github.com/jdevoo/8e8866cd6087e05790841d0f20b2e377 https://gist.github.com/jdevoo/8e8866cd6087e05790841d0f20b2e...
    • VaxWithSex 3y ago
      sigzero doIt.
• dgellow 3y ago
  > ATMs in Moscow streets > From 2008 to 2015 ATMs deployed in Moscow streets were developed and run using Pharo. People use them to pay for services with cash and cards (phone, internet, taxes, parking, etc)."Pharo was a really enabling technology. We developed user interfaces using advanced flow control based on continuations and mixed prototype with class-based programming. We supported various kind of equipment and a... > 2 March 2017 https://pharo.org/success/ATMsInMoscowStreets.html https://pharo.org/success/ATMsInMoscowStreets.html That's a surprising success story!