Posted by Ichiseki on Aug 07, 2014; 7:56pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Two-Questions-from-a-Newbie-tp4772384.html

Konnichiwa
First thanks to those that gave me some directions to start with Pharo / Smalltalk.
Now I have some questions that I'm sure are very stupid.
The first one is, is there a way to use the bouncing atoms and the lights on on Pharo 3? Because I tried to build it in there and it doesn't work
The second one is why there are like three different smalltalk environments? Pharo Squeek and Cuis? What are the differences? Is there a standard? I find this extremelly intriguing as it seems like there is a lot of dupplicate effort?
The third one is which is the line between the core language and frameworks and libraries in Pharo?
I found that, for instance Cuis has something like a basic image and some external frameworks, pharo has some internal frameworks and lots of externals. This is weird from someone comming from other languages.
The fourth is I found that documentation is very, very scarce especially for some frameworks. This is also a major drawback for a newcomer to pharo. A very thick entry barrier.

Thank you
Ichiro