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Re:Pharo 2.0 Released by rasur on Monday March 18, 2013 @08:21AM (#5393667)
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!

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Re:Pharo 2.0 Released by philippeback on Monday March 18, 2013 @08:27AM (#5393686)
True! 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.

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Re:Pharo 2.0 Released by diminish on Monday March 18, 2013 @09:03AM (#5393824)
Could someone explain, why pharo matters? I just noticed it on HN#1, and never heard of it before.
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Re:Pharo 2.0 Released by emaringolo on Monday March 18, 2013 @09:08AM (#5393846)
It 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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Re:Pharo 2.0 Released by riffraff on Monday March 18, 2013 @09:06AM (#5393840)
it'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.
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