I thought TIL stood for Threaded Interpretive Language, as per Forth or Factor

I installed this for Ubuntu 12.04. When I fired it up, it requested I choose and build a source file (different from Pharo 3). Then when it started, it said, "Pharo cannot locate the source file named /usr/lib/pharo-vm/PharoV40.sources.

Any ideas what to do?

TIA, Steve

Sorry about that. The Ubuntu PPA is not yet up-to-date. Please download http://files.pharo.org/sources/PharoV40.sources.zip and extract it in /usr/lib/pharo-vm/PharoV40.sources. You may have to throw your image away and start a new one.

I forwarded you question to the dev list

Mark,

I believe you reviewed mocl. It would be interesting to see your comparison of the two.

I am sorry I did not see your question earlier.

mocl is very interesting, but I only played with it. I think mocl's value lies in using Common Lisp code for the logic of an app, but still have some iOS or Android specific UI glue.

I would love to spend time experimenting more with mocl and Gambit-C for building apps, but, my real business is in text analytics and AI.

Just a few words to tell my experience with the tool:

./configure make

ERROR: required tool wget not found. brew install wget

ERROR: required tool gs not found. brew install gs

ERROR: required tool convert not found. brew install ImageMagick

ERROR: required tool xelatex not found.

LATEX???? -> GOODBYE

In case you want to change your mind XeTeX is now optional. Please note that there were good reasons to require it, as we do projects in languages having right-to-left script, or use higher Unicode characters (such as Kannada).

Wonderful idea. I had a similar thought for a particular set of books using a browser (in large mode) for controlling.

Congratulations!!!

The practitioner software I saw was built in dBASE III or dBASE III+.

I get an error on a number of the examples when executing them with Pharo 3.0 on Win 7x64. For example:

 Unknown character ->(ZnServer startDefaultOn: 8080) onRequestRespond: [ :request | ZnResponse ok: (ZnEntity with: DateAndTime now printString) ]

April Fool's?

Thanks for the heads up on this very good piece of news.

PG: It could be instructive to be able to compare your new version with what is currently available.

Great article. I've worked with M for over 2 decades in various healthcare institutions. It's amazing how it has supported multi-user systems from 286's to minicomputers (remember them?) to IBM mainframes to today's servers. In one large company we had the same application running on OpenVMS, Unixware, Linux and Windows. While there are domains in which it is not appropriate, for storing and accessing large amounts of indexed data, it is hard to beat.

And the syntax of the base language does not pose the barrier of entry that some more modern languages might.

Steve