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Ben Coman

3.0 Welcome text

Some feedback on the Pharo 3.0 Release welcome text.

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From watching the Ruby conference video from another recent thread, use
of the word "immersive" really caught my attention.
As well, from another recent thread, newcomers probably don't care if
its Smalltalk - either actual or inspired.

So lets sell the strongest outside marketing message first...

Welcome to Pharo, an immersive live programming environment.

rather than

Welcome to Pharo, a clean, innovative, free, and open-source
Smalltalk-inspired environment.

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Newcomers wont know how to "execute" a statement, so...
You can learn pharo by highlighting the next line and selecting [Do
it] from the context menu:
rather than
You can learn pharo by executing:
(Later reference to "executing" is okay.)
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> Better [ackaging for standard download
Better packaging for standard download

>Browser the documentation http://www.pharo.org/documentation
Browsing the documentation http://www.pharo.org/documentation

>Getting the Pharo By Example book (available as a free PDF):
(This is the only line with a colon, remove that.)

Maybe move "New class builder" under Kernel heading .
Maybe change "More" heading to "Tools"

cheers -ben

btw, it would be really cool if URLs within comments were automatically
identified and clickable to launch an external browser.

sebastianconcept@gmail.co

OFFLIST Re: 3.0 Welcome text

I’ve wanted to let you know that I’ve just saw Dan Ingalls presentation on the Lively Kernel and he also set emphasis in immersive

On Apr 29, 2014, at 10:52 PM, Ben Coman <[hidden email]> wrote:

Some feedback on the Pharo 3.0 Release welcome text.

---

From watching the Ruby conference video from another recent thread, use of the word "immersive" really caught my attention.
As well, from another recent thread, newcomers probably don't care if its Smalltalk - either actual or inspired.

So lets sell the strongest outside marketing message first...

Welcome to Pharo, an immersive live programming environment.

rather than

Welcome to Pharo, a clean, innovative, free, and open-source Smalltalk-inspired environment.

---

Newcomers wont know how to "execute" a statement, so...
You can learn pharo by highlighting the next line and selecting [Do it] from the context menu:
rather than
You can learn pharo by executing:
(Later reference to "executing" is okay.)
---

> Better [ackaging for standard download
Better packaging for standard download

>Browser the documentation http://www.pharo.org/documentation
Browsing the documentation http://www.pharo.org/documentation

>Getting the Pharo By Example book (available as a free PDF):
(This is the only line with a colon, remove that.)

Maybe move "New class builder" under Kernel heading .
Maybe change "More" heading to "Tools"

cheers -ben

btw, it would be really cool if URLs within comments were automatically identified and clickable to launch an external browser.

Ben Coman

Re: 3.0 Welcome text

In reply to this post by Ben Coman

Just to add... looking back (I wasn't there at the time) when Pharo
forked from Squeak, it seems "cleaning" and "innovating" were two
significant points you wanted differentiate from Squeak for Smalltalker
insiders. Now a few years on, that is probably firmly established and
you can start targeting the market beyond Smalltalk insiders.

Ben Coman wrote:

>
> Some feedback on the Pharo 3.0 Release welcome text.
>
> ---
>
> From watching the Ruby conference video from another recent thread,
> use of the word "immersive" really caught my attention.
> As well, from another recent thread, newcomers probably don't care if
> its Smalltalk - either actual or inspired.
>
> So lets sell the strongest outside marketing message first...
>
> Welcome to Pharo, an immersive live programming environment.
>
> rather than
>
> Welcome to Pharo, a clean, innovative, free, and open-source
> Smalltalk-inspired environment.
>
> ---
>
> Newcomers wont know how to "execute" a statement, so...
> You can learn pharo by highlighting the next line and selecting [Do
> it] from the context menu:
> rather than
> You can learn pharo by executing:
> (Later reference to "executing" is okay.)
> ---
>
> > Better [ackaging for standard download
> Better packaging for standard download
>
> >Browser the documentation http://www.pharo.org/documentation
> Browsing the documentation http://www.pharo.org/documentation
>
> >Getting the Pharo By Example book (available as a free PDF):
> (This is the only line with a colon, remove that.)
>
> Maybe move "New class builder" under Kernel heading .
> Maybe change "More" heading to "Tools"
>
> cheers -ben
>
> btw, it would be really cool if URLs within comments were
> automatically identified and clickable to launch an external browser.
>
>
>
>

Sean P. DeNigris

Re: 3.0 Welcome text

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Ben Coman wrote

Just to add
...
> Some feedback on the Pharo 3.0 Release welcome text.
> btw, it would be really cool if URLs within comments were
> automatically identified and clickable to launch an external browser.

I like everything in this thread.

As for clickable URLs, I've been thinking we should have this available by default for some time. With NativeBoost, you can easily do this in OS X with "NBMacShell run: 'open ', aUrl asString". What's a dependable way to launch the default browser on other platforms? On Windows? For *nix, I found xdg-open, but wasn't sure if it was standard across many/all flavors.

Cheers,
Sean