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by scroot 8y ago
Gotta say, my Power Computing was one of my favorite machines I've ever owned
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by scroot 8y ago
Your points about documentation are well taken. There seems to be a dissonance between the mainstream world and Pharoers in this regard. Mainstreamers pretty much expect documentation to be good and to be reliably available via the web (I e
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by scroot 8y ago
I think this is some BS that has to do with OSX's "security" and that applications like this are required to be in the Applications folder. I could be wrong.
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by scroot 8y ago
I think `FileStream` is deprecated in the new version of Pharo.
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by scroot 8y ago
You can do something like: `Stdio stdout nextPutAll: 'Hello, World!'.`
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by scroot 8y ago
I agree that the appearance of the system in this regard probably turns off lots of users. There are some in the Pharo community who are quite aware of this fact, but there are simply not enough contributors at the moment to deal with it on
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by scroot 8y ago
Gtoolkit [1] is a cutting-edge example of what's possible. I say "cutting edge" because it relies upon a dev version of Bloc, which is the new graphics system being developed for future versions of Pharo. Any sluggishness you
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by scroot 8y ago
Fellow Pharo contributors: we should take this feedback seriously
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by scroot 8y ago
> They don’t understand why you can’t just put a Word document in an email, or a website, or in ‘the cloud’ and edit it in-place. To many people the functionality of the editing is inherently in the document, (not the system) and don’t u
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by scroot 8y ago
Yes it's a replacement for Morphic, but it also allows for more modern 2D graphics. The new GToolkit alpha is actually built in Bloc.
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by scroot 8y ago
I think the new graphics layer (Bloc) will help with this. It's already a huge mental leap to understand what's going on when someone first boots up a Smalltalk environment. The current look of the system doesn't help things.
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by scroot 8y ago
There's one setup that I've used with XFCE before, but it's not perfect. I've been working on and off implementing some Platinum stuff in Pharo's upcoming new graphics layer (called Bloc) and these have come out OK.
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by scroot 8y ago
The BeOS and Platinum interfaces are among the best ever created
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by scroot 8y ago
Unix is indeed ubiquitous, but it would be nice to have a personal computing system whose core metaphor is something other than a teletype.
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by scroot 8y ago
Pandemic Legacy is some of the most fun a person can have!
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by scroot 8y ago
Specifically, the portion called "The Implementation" is a description of the VM written in Smalltalk itself. This is an attempt to be as complete as McCarthy's Lisp language description and implementation in Lisp.
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by scroot 8y ago
Check this out: https://github.com/nopsys/CogNOS
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by scroot 8y ago
An operating system should be more like this
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by scroot 8y ago
This is intentional: the roots were all taken from what Zamenhof surmised were the "most common" for a given word/concept across Indo-European languages
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by scroot 8y ago
It could still work really well as the systems environment and language for a personal computing device. One needs to build the proper abstractions and DSLs on top of it, of course, but it would be a much more conducive environment to &quo
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by scroot 8y ago
It's a shame this idea has gone out of fashion. The concept once came straight from FDR's mouth: if your business cannot afford to pay a living wage to its workers, then it should not be permitted to exist. We should not consider
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by scroot 8y ago
Pharo's new graphics system, Bloc, is going to change some of this. Already the guys rewriting GToolkit are experimenting with much better looking and more interesting UIs. And one of the backends is the same framework mozilla uses in
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by scroot 8y ago
This is where we have real opportunity that didn't exist in the 90s. Back then, we had more diverse (and exotic) personal computing environments, but they weren't largely online and they had one other problem: incompatibilities. T
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by scroot 8y ago
To what history are you referring? There are scholars who study this kind of thing (check out Bonnie Nardi, for example). Good systems that integrate end user programming are popular and used by non programmers when they are available. If t
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by scroot 8y ago
I don't agree. There is a place for something like end user programming. It was a big deal in the 90s and has largely fallen out of favor as developers go deeper into their own universes. Certainly something like Hypercard wasn't
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by scroot 8y ago
We need to come up with a name for this "branch" of computing that is less followed and that has not been adopted en masse by the wider culture. It's going to have a second wind soon.
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by scroot 8y ago
Back in 2012, Errol Morris performed a typeface experiment on unsuspecting NYT readers [1]. The results are worth reading (hint: use Baskerville if you want to be trusted) [1] https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/
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by scroot 8y ago
I'd like a Smalltalk machine with a Platinum-like UI
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by scroot 8y ago
Hypercard
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by scroot 8y ago
I urge you not to take Levine's book seriously, especially when it comes to the early history of computing and the Internet. It is a poorly researched and argued work of history

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