Re:Pharo 7.0 released
by dman on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @10:55AM
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Think Smalltalk is one case where thinking incrementally from what you already know about programming might be doing yourself a disservice.
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We’ve converged on a computing and programming experience that is largely homogeneous across languages and platforms, and Smalltalk is definitely an alternate timeline tech.
I kind of like these systems because they remind me of when computers were weird and different and had legitimate tradeoffs. People’s expectations of computers were still rooted in a physical model of interacting with the world. Computers were still very much trying to prove that they were relevant to the “real world.”
Smalltalk is not so limited.
COMMAND LINE:
/opt/src/vw8.3pul/bin/visual nbody.vw_run.im -nogui -evaluate "BenchmarksGame program" -a 50000000
PROGRAM OUTPUT:
-0.169075164
-0.169059907