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by andrewl 2705 days ago
From the home page, in the A glimpse of Pharo section:

  $ curl https://get.pharo.org | bash 
  $ ./pharo Pharo.image eval "42 factorial"
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Which apparently does nothing.
I got 1405006117752879898543142606244511569936384000000000 on my command line after running those commands.
How many of the programmers you know would be able to glance at the first ten of those digits and be able to say the result was correct?

How many would be able to say that `Hello, world` was correct?

Is that what the website home page shows?
You're really intent on splitting those hairs.
I've learned that a code snippet is not the same as working code.