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The evolution of Smalltalk: from Smalltalk-72 through Squeak
by Vanessa Freudenberg June 15, 2020

June 15, 2020

Dan Ingalls’ HOPL IV paper is out now: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386335 - Vanessa -

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PharoJS now runs on Pharo 8 :-)
by N. Bouraqadi June 8, 2020

June 8, 2020

Thanks to Ivo Roefs and Dave Mason ! Noury

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UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, June 24th
by Giovanni Corriga June 8, 2020

June 8, 2020

The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, June 24th. Fabio Niephaus (https://fniephaus.com) will talk to us about TruffleSqueak ( https://github.com/hpi-swa/trufflesqueak) a Squeak/Smalltalk VM and Polyglot Programming Environment for the GraalVM (https://www.graalvm.org) He is a Ph.D. student within the Software Architecture Group ( https://hpi.de/swa) at the Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany. He has strong interests in dynamic programming languages, virtual execution environments, and software development tools. Fabio will talk about the motivation for his research in the field of Polyglot Programming. With a live demo, he will show how TruffleSqueak can be used as a polyglot IDE for other languages such as Java, Javascript, Python, R, or Ruby. He will also introduce us to the GraalVM ecosystem and discuss his experience in writing a Smalltalk VM in Truffle, GraalVM's language implementation framework. Given the current COVID-19 restrictions, this will be an online meeting. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance at the meeting Meetup's page https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/cbklbrybcjbgc/ to obtain the meeting details. See you there!

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Smalltalk and Augmented Reality
by Alexandre Bergel May 25, 2020

May 25, 2020

Dear All, First, I hope your family and yourself are all safe. At Esug last year, we sent a call for participation in an experiment about programming in augmented reality. Many of you participated and we deeply thank you for this. We produced a 1 minute long video describing the effort: https://youtu.be/X7WKAmwmo7M Accompanying paper: http://bergel.eu/MyPapers/Meri20-AgileSituatedVisualization.pdf I know many of the Smalltalk community have a great interest in Augmented and Virtual Reality, which is why I share our result in this mailing list. Big thank: to the participants of the experiment for their patience and willingness to use our environment to the local organizers for helping us finding a room to run the experiment (it was the room for VIP music band :-D) Cheers, Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

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UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, May 27th
by Giovanni Corriga May 20, 2020

May 20, 2020

The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, May 27th. Alan Jackson will talk to us about Kyma ( https://kyma.symbolicsound.com/ ) an object-oriented sound design environment built with Smalltalk technology. Given the current COVID-19 restrictions, this will be an online meeting. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance at the meeting Meetup's page https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/cbklbrybchbkc/ to obtain the meeting details. See you there!

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UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, May 27th
by Giovanni Corriga May 20, 2020

May 20, 2020

The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group will be on Wednesday, May 27th. Alan Jackson will talk to us about Kyma ( https://kyma.symbolicsound.com/ ) an object-oriented sound design environment built with Smalltalk technology. Given the current COVID-19 restrictions, this will be an online meeting. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance at the meeting Meetup's page https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/cbklbrybchbkc/ to obtain the meeting details. See you there!

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pharo.org domain problems?
by Юрий Мироненко May 20, 2020

May 20, 2020

pharo.org is not accessible just now, and neither catalog.pharo.org. smalltalkhub is not works either. Is it just me somehow, or something serious happens? -- Yuriy Mironenko

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Cancelling ESUG 2020 :(
by Stéphane Ducasse May 18, 2020

May 18, 2020

Dear happy smalltalking people, After several analyses the board in concertation with the local organisers decided to cancel ESUG in 2020. It was not an easy decision but we believe it has to be taken. We plan to organise it next year in the same place. For IWST the PC chair will announce some dates because we would like to run it. S. on the behalf of the ESUG board. I hope that you and your friends and family are safe. -------------------------------------------- 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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Official Pharo consortium Call. Pharo needs you: Perfect time to join
by Stéphane Ducasse May 11, 2020

May 11, 2020

Dear Pharo users, lovers, businessers Context ********* You may not know it clearly but the Pharo consortium succeeds to pay one full time engineer: Esteban Lorenzano. Due to legal concerns with the Inria foundation effort, Inria converted the position of Esteban into a permanent position. It was a great deal because it secures Esteban. Now based on contracts between the consortium and Lifeware ( https://www.lifeware.ch <https://www.lifeware.ch/> ) and Schmidt (http://bauing-schmidt.de <http://bauing-schmidt.de/>) the consortium is able to pay another engineer: Pablo Tesone until April 2021. All this was announced at ESUG 2019 but not all of you may have known it. <Mini news> * The consortium has been working to get Pharo in the database of the CNRS platforms (CNRS is a huge research organisation in France covering all research fields. Guillermo Polito has a permanent position from CNRS allocated to the Lille University Lab and we want to convince the lab that having Guille working on Pharo is the best ROI that they can make). * We also are pursing a process to be recognized by the University of Lille for the same reason. We are also working to get PharoPro out of the ground but this is another story. * All these efforts in communication are done to secure people position. We have got many new academic members. Some should be announced soon. </mini news> Now THE announce. ************************* During the last consortium meeting, we learned that David Margery (the Inria software manager that is managing around 10 ofconsortiums for Inria) wants to propose to Inria to allocate another permanent position to Pharo even if the consortium does not raise two full salaries. This will secure the effort of the consortium for the coming years. We were excited by the news because such positions are rare and lifelong! David is building a case to defend his proposal: * first the pharo consortium is in a good shape - thank you all * second, Inria is interested to "assess if Pharo is used” David told us that having more industrial partners (even first entry ones) will really help our case: the fact that members are willing to pay to secure the future of Pharo is the key indicator, the amount paid being only secondary. Remember that the first membership fee is at 1K Euros. Therefore the consortium is sending an official call. If you hesitated to join the consortium this is clearly the moment. Your money will be multiplied. Because a full job for an expert engineer is around 90 K so if we get 8 new members at 1/2 K we have a strong multiplication effect and this will have an important impact on Pharo. http://consortium.pharo.org <http://consortium.pharo.org/> http://consortium.pharo.org/web/Membership <http://consortium.pharo.org/web/Membership> So I hope that we convince you that you can get a real impact on Pharo. The consortium engineering team wants to thank all the current consortium member because they make Pharo happening. S. on the behalf of the consortium. -------------------------------------------- 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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[ANN] Cheer for THE Medusa - the single Smalltalk based battle snake
by Jerry Kott April 25, 2020

April 25, 2020

Hi lists, you may recall a mention of Battlesnake in these forums before. Today, the Battlesnake team is holding an online tournament that you can watch live on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/battlesnakeofficial <https://www.twitch.tv/battlesnakeofficial>. My entry THE Medusa is the only Smalltalk-based battlesnake in the competition. It’s listed in the Group D of the Veteran division. Not sure when it’s going be on - currently the Rookie division is playing. I hope you can join, watch, have some fun, get inspired to write and enter your own Smalltalk based snakes for future competition (the arenas are open year-round so you have plenty of time to test your snakes), and if you can, donate a small amount to Food Banks Canada in support of families affected by COVID-19. Cheers, stay safe & stay healthy. Jerry Kott This message has been digitally signed. PGP Fingerprint: A9181736DD2F1B6CC7CF9E51AC8514F48C0979A5

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