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Re:Pharo: A malleable and powerful platform by benjComan on Sunday October 13, 2013 @12:22PM (#6543084)
I started using Pharo a year ago and its been a pleasure to work with. Great community.

I really like the Syntax comparison (slides 46-49). And being able to serialize the debugging context of a running program to a file that can be stored for later

Re:Pharo: A malleable and powerful platform by bromagosa on Monday October 14, 2013 @05:41AM (#6546239)
Unless you're used to the Smalltalk way, you'd never think serializing the debugging context of a running program would have any use at all.

I'd never had dreamed it'd be possible to do what I do regularly in my deployed web apps. When the error handler catches an error, it serializes the error and emails it to me in a fuel file. I can then fire up my _local_ Pharo environment, materialize the error, debug it with all its context, fix whatever code I need to and push the changes to my monticello repo.

Re:Pharo: A malleable and powerful platform by kilon on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @04:12AM (#6558553)
Wow thats really impressive . well done