[sbe-discussion] Re: Announcing

[Peredur]

El 07/05/12 15:58, Damien Cassou escribió:
> Hi Peter,
>
> welcome on board. I'm not sure I understand why you send an email to
> the book mailing list though and how did the pharo-project mailing
> list requested you to do so :-).
>
> Can you tell us more about how you (plan to) use Smalltalk?
>

There's been talk about the book on the pharo mailing list (see below).

As for my use of SmallTalk...  I'm just curious.  I'm a retired 
programmer and a serial learner of programming languages.  My favourite 
language is always the last one I learnt!

:-)

The (partial) thread from the Pharo list follows my signature


Peter
-- 
*Peter Bradley*
peredur.net <http://www.peredur.net>

Peredur wrote:
> El 06/05/12 13:17, Mariano Martinez Peck escribió:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Stéphane Ducasse 
>> <stephane.ducasse at inria.fr <mailto:stephane.ducasse at inria.fr>> wrote:
>>
>> >>
>> >
>> > The new book focuses on different issues than the old book.  It
>>     would be sad to let the old book languish entirely and end up with
>>     a poor first impression for newcomers, so I am willing to
>>     participate in updating it to Pharo 1.4.  I am getting a lot from
>>     Pharo and this is something I can contribute.  I think it fair the
>>     main developers continue with implementing and documenting the
>>     advanced features, while the community maintains the more
>>     established things.  A quick scan pegs this effort at updating
>>     about 170 images, plus hopefully a minimal amount of text.  How
>>     would I proceed with this?
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> That would be AWESOME. Really.
>
> I would be the last person who could really help, directly with this, 
> but I'd be happy (other pressures permitting) to do some proof-reading 
> for you and to act as a guinea pig for you - along the lines of, "If 
> it's clear to me it's probably going to be clear to other readers 
> since my prior knowledge is nil".
>
>
>
>
> Peter
That would be welcome.   I'll move further discussion to 
sbe-discussion at iam.unibe.ch list.  Announce yourself there also.

cheers -ben



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