hilaire

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by hilaire 8y ago
Racket is very exemplary with its documentation: https://docs.racket-lang.org/ GUI documentation will likely never show up: the current graphic framework is outdated, subject to deprecation and no subject to improvement sin
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by hilaire 10y ago
One thing to understand regarding Smalltalk, it is the paradigm shift compared to file based environment: - with the later, you deal with characters (ascii, utf8) - with the former, you deal with object (an internal object representation).
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by hilaire 10y ago
AFAIK, in Java or Python, I don't find this live environment either. Also I found these languages to be over-complex or inconsistent in their paradigm. I remember Java to be overequiped in its Object representation or Python to be inco
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by hilaire 10y ago
I like a lot this small code example http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/726369/when-does-the... It results in an interactive diagram of the Newton Raphson method to search for a zero of a function. The user
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by hilaire 10y ago
> the ability to modify a live environment is fine, but it's only just barely better than coding in a file, and only because it saves you a small amount of time. With experience programming complex applications both on C++ and Smal
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by hilaire 10y ago
I learn Smalltalk a few years ago to port a C++ interactive geometry software ( http://drgeo.eu ) to Squeak/Etoys then Pharo. I can testify documentation was never an issue, there are plenty of free books to learn from and a
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by hilaire 12y ago
Great!