Wrong thread, sorry.

On 1/26/13, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is the Pharo 2.0 image which is the developer image and a
> smaller one called 'Pharo Kernel'.
>
> https://ci.inria.fr/pharo/view/Pharo-Kernel-2.0/
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> Both have various builds with various packages.
>
> --Hannes
>
>
>
> On 1/26/13, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>
>> On 26.01.2013, at 04:47, Darius Clarke <socinian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've developed applications in Squeak in various forms professionally
>>> (including Croquet & Cobalt) and now I would like to give back to the
>>> community, helping where I can. I use Squeak (and eToys) for educational
>>> purposes and create some learning tools with it.
>>>
>>> Like most of the community I'm persuaded by the programming and UI
>>> ideals
>>> which Squeak embodies (and hinted at ideals and opportunities).
>>>
>>> Curiously, each direction taken by the developers along Squeak's
>>> development path seem to coincide with how I would envision Squeak
>>> should
>>> progress. So, I would encourage Squeak's community to continue on it's
>>> current trajectory: making it more modular in packages, better developer
>>> tools, and a little more consistency in programming paradigms as needed.
>>>
>>> Coming from an educational perspective, I do bring with me some
>>> preferences (secondary to the above) for Squeak's progress such as:
>>> 	• Prepackaged distributions for rapid adoption for common use cases
>>> (since our systems should serve us and not us serve them)
>>> 	• Rapid discover of modules or components for a purpose. (Dividing a
>>> monolith into modules is only half the battle. We must be able to
>>> discover
>>> and assemble the disparate parts extremely rapidly into our solutions to
>>> be ideal for the intended purpose or task to accomplish.)
>>> 	• Continue supporting student constructionist education, with a gradual
>>> self revealing of Squeak's computational power to the student as the
>>> student masters each skill (as a fertile platform for supporting eToys
>>> and
>>> beyond eToys)
>>> 	• Continuing its support for the modern web communication
>>> infrastructure.
>>> The web has become the UI of the people (not by choice, design, or
>>> superiority) but has, in effect, unified the public of many nations (E
>>> pluribus unum) with the power provided by computational tools. I believe
>>> doing so will help expose Squeak's capabilities to more developers who
>>> can
>>> use it. Computational thinking has grown beyond one person to one
>>> machine
>>> to one software platform.
>>> My best wishes for all the candidates and for a prosperous new year to
>>> the
>>> Squeak and Smalltalk community. Thank you for all your work up to now
>>> and
>>> into the future.
>>>
>>> - Darius Clarke
>>
>> Great!
>>
>> - Bert -
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