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>> I'm thinking about implementing a software solution in Pharo (as one of the
> candidate environments), it's
>> a project that I'm dealing with professionally. The goal is to develop a
>> financial planning/simulation
>> application on the country level, which is at present developed as a set
>> of interrelated Excel spreadsheets.
>> The requirement is that the solution should be more "manageable",
>> resilient and straightforward than
>> Excel permits, that it should present a workflow to the user - i.e. , that
>> the tasks the user should do are
>> suggested through the GUI.
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> Thanks again for all the ideas regarding my project. So far I prepared the
> domain model and all the calculations. The model might be changed in the
> future, but that's basically it. Now I'm going to focus on the user's
> workflow and GUI.
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> I have to say that I'm positively surprised by Pharo. Besides Pharo, I
> explored the feasibility of using other environments for the same project,
> namely VBA, .NET, Python. What took me in VBA and C#.NET roughly two weeks -
> and these are my 'native' programming environments - I finished in five days
> in Pharo. If GUI and finalization will go smoothly, this will be a success.
> I'm playing with Pharo for some time, but until now I haven't done any
> serious work with it. Nice!
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