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Could someone explain, why pharo matters? I just noticed it on HN#1, and never heard of it before.
by diminish 14y ago
Could 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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