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Double ended fun! Pharo at the backend, Amber smalltalk on the client. Excellent news from the Pharo team! It's the most fun I've had playing with computers fo
by rasur 14y ago
Double ended fun! Pharo at the backend, Amber smalltalk on the client.
Excellent news from the Pharo team! It's the most fun I've had playing with computers for almost a decade - Long may it continue!
- philippeback 14y agoTrue! And releases so close in time: awesome. Also, on iOS and OSX, one can use a WebView in the VM which is showing HTML/JS genereated amber served from the image. That's close late binding.
- diminish 14y agoCould someone explain, why pharo matters? I just noticed it on HN#1, and never heard of it before.
- riffraff 14y agoit's one of the (maybe "the") most popular open source smalltalk environments. It matters in the same way a new ruby/python/clojure release matters, though it's not as popular.
- emaringolo 14y agoIt is the most recent release of a the Smalltalk based programming environment, Pharo. If you never heard of Smalltalk, you can google it. But as a summary I can tell you it is the father of Object-Oriented Programming, BitBlt, the Model-View-Controller pattern, the Unit Testing practice (SUnit), the Refactoring engine, among other things people take for granted today.
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