[worldhell129]

Yup, I just wanted to spit my hate out because of the countless number of hours I've wasted using pharo and smalltalk in general. The images feel extremely fragile, the whole environment feels slow. Just scrolling in pharo eats up my cpu. Smalltalk may be an okay language (but extremely terrible to have to be mandatory for an advanced algorithms class), but pharo in my opinion isn't very good and just plain annoying. Also, for the record I've used pharo for two courses and I hated both courses with a passion just because I had to use pharo.

[nextputall]

Have you ever used eclipse or netbeans? Those feels an order of magnitude slower than pharo. I consider pharo a small and fast environment compared to other "IDEs".

[worldhell129]

The point is I have a choice. I can choose to edit TEXT files in netbeans or eclipse, I can choose to edit them in vim or emacs. Using pharo and smalltalk I'm not even given a choice the environment is forced upon me and I have to use their specific environment.

[nextputall]

You can use emacs, if you have a perversion like this. http://dmitrymatveev.co.uk/shampoo/

[dh83]

thats why I still program in text files and use gdb for debugging. They are fast and reliable, that's what you need for algorithms anyway. And who cares about abstractions.

[worldhell129]

I like your style