Singing praise: Pharo is awesome!

> I was just doing some coding in my favorite dev environment today  
> and I must say: Pharo is excellent!!
>
> Seriously, nice work by all of you. You have all been cranking  
> forward; progress has been frequent, which makes it both exciting  
> and comforting.
>
> I also realized today that the performance was weighing on me and  
> making me not want to use Pharo recently; now  it feels meaningfully  
> better for coding. There are many issues to be dealt with yet(*),  
> however, there are many that have been dealt with. Numerous things,  
> like the NetNameResolver (and associated issues), have been working  
> for me on a Mac out-of-the-box, even though there are issues on  
> other platforms -- i started to pick through the code today to get  
> up to speed, but... just cannot invest any serious time right now. I  
> hope to be a contributor later this year.
>
> (*) no details available here... this thread is simply a song of  
> praise.
>
> Nice work. Thank You all for your effort and contributions!
>
> -Cam
>
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> Thanks.
>
> you know contributing can be just as simple as checking that the bug
> is happening as described
> or trying to check why a message is sent but not implemented as
> described in the bug tracker entries.
>
> Stef
>
> On Jul 20, 2009, at 12:13 AM, Cameron Sanders wrote:
>
>> I was just doing some coding in my favorite dev environment today
>> and I must say: Pharo is excellent!!
>>
>> Seriously, nice work by all of you. You have all been cranking
>> forward; progress has been frequent, which makes it both exciting
>> and comforting.
>>
>> I also realized today that the performance was weighing on me and
>> making me not want to use Pharo recently; now  it feels meaningfully
>> better for coding. There are many issues to be dealt with yet(*),
>> however, there are many that have been dealt with. Numerous things,
>> like the NetNameResolver (and associated issues), have been working
>> for me on a Mac out-of-the-box, even though there are issues on
>> other platforms -- i started to pick through the code today to get
>> up to speed, but... just cannot invest any serious time right now. I
>> hope to be a contributor later this year.
>>
>> (*) no details available here... this thread is simply a song of
>> praise.
>>
>> Nice work. Thank You all for your effort and contributions!
>>
>> -Cam
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Pharo-project mailing list
>> [hidden email]
>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
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> Stef & Pharo'ers,
>
> You are right. And I feel bad that I did not see one of your emails
> (until yesterday) asking me to fill in the details on one defect 2
> months back. My apologies.
>
> I will get better at helping... in a couple of months. Until then I
> can only give you praise!
>
> Sincerely,
> Cameron Sanders
>
> On Jul 20, 2009, at 2:27 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> you know contributing can be just as simple as checking that the bug
>> is happening as described
>> or trying to check why a message is sent but not implemented as
>> described in the bug tracker entries.
>>
>> Stef
>>
>> On Jul 20, 2009, at 12:13 AM, Cameron Sanders wrote:
>>
>>> I was just doing some coding in my favorite dev environment today
>>> and I must say: Pharo is excellent!!
>>>
>>> Seriously, nice work by all of you. You have all been cranking
>>> forward; progress has been frequent, which makes it both exciting
>>> and comforting.
>>>
>>> I also realized today that the performance was weighing on me and
>>> making me not want to use Pharo recently; now  it feels meaningfully
>>> better for coding. There are many issues to be dealt with yet(*),
>>> however, there are many that have been dealt with. Numerous things,
>>> like the NetNameResolver (and associated issues), have been working
>>> for me on a Mac out-of-the-box, even though there are issues on
>>> other platforms -- i started to pick through the code today to get
>>> up to speed, but... just cannot invest any serious time right now. I
>>> hope to be a contributor later this year.
>>>
>>> (*) no details available here... this thread is simply a song of
>>> praise.
>>>
>>> Nice work. Thank You all for your effort and contributions!
>>>
>>> -Cam
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Pharo-project mailing list
>>> [hidden email]
>>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
>>
>>
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> no problem :)
>
> Stef
>
> On Jul 20, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Cameron Sanders wrote:
>
>> Stef & Pharo'ers,
>>
>> You are right. And I feel bad that I did not see one of your emails
>> (until yesterday) asking me to fill in the details on one defect 2
>> months back. My apologies.
>>
>> I will get better at helping... in a couple of months. Until then I
>> can only give you praise!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Cameron Sanders
>>
>> On Jul 20, 2009, at 2:27 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> you know contributing can be just as simple as checking that the bug
>>> is happening as described
>>> or trying to check why a message is sent but not implemented as
>>> described in the bug tracker entries.
>>>
>>> Stef
>>>
>>> On Jul 20, 2009, at 12:13 AM, Cameron Sanders wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was just doing some coding in my favorite dev environment today
>>>> and I must say: Pharo is excellent!!
>>>>
>>>> Seriously, nice work by all of you. You have all been cranking
>>>> forward; progress has been frequent, which makes it both exciting
>>>> and comforting.
>>>>
>>>> I also realized today that the performance was weighing on me and
>>>> making me not want to use Pharo recently; now  it feels  
>>>> meaningfully
>>>> better for coding. There are many issues to be dealt with yet(*),
>>>> however, there are many that have been dealt with. Numerous things,
>>>> like the NetNameResolver (and associated issues), have been working
>>>> for me on a Mac out-of-the-box, even though there are issues on
>>>> other platforms -- i started to pick through the code today to get
>>>> up to speed, but... just cannot invest any serious time right  
>>>> now. I
>>>> hope to be a contributor later this year.
>>>>
>>>> (*) no details available here... this thread is simply a song of
>>>> praise.
>>>>
>>>> Nice work. Thank You all for your effort and contributions!
>>>>
>>>> -Cam
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Pharo-project mailing list
>>>> [hidden email]
>>>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
>>>
>>>
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