January 2020 - Esug-list - lists.esug.org

Smalltalk books for sale
by Steve Edwards Feb. 1, 2023

Feb. 1, 2023

Hi, I have old Smalltalk books for sale. Be good if they could go to a good home. Thinking of selling them as packages of related books to simplify buying and posting. Anybody interested? (Not sure if best means is to use eBay?) =================================================================== Package A - Smalltalk 80 Smalltalk-80 - Bits of History, Words of Advice Glenn Krasner Addison Wesley 1983 Smalltalk-80 - The Interactive Programming Environment Adele Goldberg Addison Wesley 1984 (HB) Smalltalk-80 (2 copies) - The Language Adele Goldberg, David Robson Addison Wesley 1989 An Introduction to OO Programming and Smalltalk Lewis Pinson, Richard Wiener Addison Wesley 1988 =================================================================== Package B - The Object People Inside Smalltalk - Vol 1 Wilf LaLonde, John Pugh Prentice Hall 1990 (HB) Inside Smalltalk - Vol 2 Wilf LaLonde, John Pugh Prentice Hall 1991 (HB) Discovering Smalltalk Wilf LaLonde Benjamin Cummings 1994 Smalltalk/V - Practice and Experience Wilf LalOnde, John Pugh Prentice Hall 1994 =================================================================== Package C - VisualWorks Smalltalk - An Introduction to Application Development using VisualWorks Trevor Hopkins, Bernard Horan Prentice Hall 1995 The Art and Science of Smalltalk (2 copies) - An Introduction to OO Programming using VisualWorks Simon Lewis Prentice Hall (HP) 1995 The Smalltalk Developer's Guide to VisualWorks Tim Howard SIGS Books 1995 =================================================================== Package D - Smalltalk/V, Windows, OS2 A Quick Trip to ObjectLand - OO Programming with Smalltalk/V Prentice Hall 1992 Smalltalk Programming for Windows Dan Shafer Prima Publishing 1993 IBM Smalltalk Programming for Windows and OS/2 Don Shafer, Scott Herndon Prima Publishing 1995 IBM Smalltalk - The Language David Smith Benjamin Cummings 1995 VisualAge for Smalltalk Distributed Walter Fang, Sven Guyet, Randy Haven, Matti Vilmi, Eduardo Eckmann Prentice Hall 1996 =================================================================== Package E - Practice, Patterns Rapid Software Development with Smalltalk Mark Lorenz SIGS Books 1995 Smalltalk with Style Suzanne Skublic, Edward Klimas, David Thomas Prentice Hall 1996 Smalltalk - Best Practice Patterns Kent Beck Prentice Hall 1997 Guide to Smalltalk - A Sorted Collection Kent Beck Cambridge University Press 1999 =================================================================== HB = Hard Back -- Steve Edwards Formerly of The Object People

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Pharo4pharo mailing-list announce
by Stéphane Ducasse Jan. 30, 2020

Jan. 30, 2020

Hi Tired of boring and dull discussions about the past? Tired and bored about the fact that the discussions are not about Pharo but about X, Z, K? Want to get in touch with other real pharo users? Want to have positive and nice discussions about Pharo? This mailing-list is for you https://lists.gforge.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/lse-pharo4pharo I created a new mailing-list for Pharo 4 Pharo. The idea of this new mailing-list is to exchange between Pharo users on Pharo. If you want to talk about the weather and other cool fishing practices or how other languages are super cool, then you should use another mailing-list. You can consider that I’m [ ] an asshole [ ] an arrogant idiot [ ] other This is not my concern. My concern is: can we respect Pharo and users of Pharo that want to share what they are doing and ask questions about their language? If you join this mailing-list be warned that I (yes me the benevolent dictator of Pharo) will remove you from the mailing-list when you get on my nerves. If you do not like it, do not like me, do not appreciate it, do not join! S. BTW they are plenty of newsgroups about Smalltalk and you can join there. -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

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New Smalltalk-based mobile app is out
by Noury Bouraqadi Jan. 29, 2020

Jan. 29, 2020

Hi everyone, The latest Smalltalk-powered smartphone app is now live. Development has been made using Pharo. Then, javascript code is generated using PharoJS. Last, the app is built to target both iOS and Android thanks to Apache Cordova. Learn more and Download at https://nootrix.com/projects/brain-treats-app/ <https://nootrix.com/projects/brain-treats-app/> 5 stars ratings are welcome ;-) Noury

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UK Smalltalk User Group meeting: Beers and Pharo 8 - 29 January 2020
by Giovanni Corriga Jan. 23, 2020

Jan. 23, 2020

The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, January 29th. We'll meet at our usual venue, The City Pride ( https://www.cityprideclerkenwell.co.uk/ ), from 7pm onwards. For this month’s meeting, we’ll explore the new release 8.0 of Pharo, which was announced a few weeks ago. If you'd like to join us, you can show up at the pub. You can also sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/cbklbrybccbdc/ . Don’t forget to bring your laptop!

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Smalltalk meetup in Palo Alto, CA on January 25, 2020
by Alexandre Bergel Jan. 15, 2020

Jan. 15, 2020

Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are organizing a Smalltalk meetup in Palo Alto, CA, on Saturday 25 January, 2020. The event is free, thanks to Lam Research, Object Profile, Semantics for sponsoring the event. More information may be found on https://agileartificialintelligence.github.io/meetup.html People who wish to attend, then the webpage contains the registration links. Please, join! Kind regards, Alexandre & Juan Pablo -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

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Fwd: [Pharo-dev] Characterizing Pharo Code: A Technical Report
by Stéphane Ducasse Jan. 15, 2020

Jan. 15, 2020

> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Oleksandr Zaytsev <olk.zaytsev(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Pharo-dev] Characterizing Pharo Code: A Technical Report > Date: 15 January 2020 at 12:02:06 CET > To: pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org > Reply-To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org> > > Hello, > > We have analyzed the source code of the 50 projects selected from the Pharo ecosystem and reported our findings in this document: > https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02440055v1 <https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02440055v1> > > Perhaps, you will find it interesting. > > Here are some fun facts that we have discovered: > 25% of classes have no more than 3 methods in them, and 50% of classes have no more than 6 methods > The average number of lines of code in Pharo methods is 5.8, the median of this number is 3, meaning that 50% of methods have no more than 3 lines. > About a quarter of source code are message sends (method names) - they take 27.3% of source code tokens and 26.3% of characters. > On a character level, 22.5% of source code are string literals, and 19.4% are literal arrays. Together literals take 44% of characters in source code, but only 7.1% of tokens. > Positive statements are much more common than negative ones. ifTrue: is used 3 times more often than ifFalse:. Similarly, ifTrue:ifFalse: is 26 times more common than ifFalse:ifTrue:. > After tokenizing the code of 151,717 methods, splitting identifier names by camel case, and removing non-alphabetic characters, we received a sequence of almost 3 million words (e.g. ... ordered collection with all command line arguments...). This sequence contains only 8,211 unique words (including all misspellings such as arrray, clipped words such as arr, and nonsense words such as ddd or xdkh). Compare this to over 40,000 unique words used in roughly the same amount of printed English prose. > At least 5,480 of those 8,211 unique alphabetic sequences are valid English words. > > Have a nice day, and let us know what you think. > We would be happy to receive your feedback. > > Oleks -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

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Job offer at RMOD around Moose
by Stéphane Ducasse Jan. 14, 2020

Jan. 14, 2020

Hello We got a two years position as engineer in our team. We should do the administration to declare it in our lovely hiring tool. But I wanted to let you know that we have this position and that it can interest some of you. The goal is to work on the new moose IDE and develop some tools for the team and companies. The follow up can also be to participate to start-up program. S. -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

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OpenQwaq python bridge
by Jan Vrany Jan. 2, 2020

Jan. 2, 2020

Hi there, does anyone know how OpenQwaq's Python bridge was/is implemented? Does it use a VM plugin/ffi to interact with Python runtime? If yes, does anyone know if sources are available (under some usable license)? If so, where can I find them? My google-fu failed me, as usual. All the best in 2020! Jan

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Re: [Esug-list] OpenQwaq python bridge
by Jan Vrany Jan. 2, 2020

Jan. 2, 2020

Hi Tobias > > If so, where can I find them? My google-fu failed me, as usual. > > Have you tried https://github.com/itsmeront/openqwaq ? > License is GPLv2 No, and this is indeed what I was looking for. Thanks a lot! Best, Jan

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