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The first prototype implementation was pure "in-image" smalltalk, but a VM plugin to handle it has been in production use for well over a year now.

The history link gives details, but if you want a quick analogy:

Pharo & Cuis both forked from squeak at roughly the same time

Squeak = Debian

Pharo = Arch

Cuis = Alpine

Cuis has rigorously simplified, so its much easier to explore & understand the system - because there's less of it

Cuis's re-engineering of morphic is really quite brilliant. Everything is hardware accelerated vector graphics. EVEN THE FONTS are drawn that way. And they remain crisp even when zoomed (in or out) & rotated.

Pharo does have some cool stuff though. I'd love to see fuel (object serialization) & soil (a fully oo database) ported to cuis. And the big one - seaside

But its not an either-or situation. 99% 9f what you learn & do in one is applicable to the other. But if you're starting out, I would definitely recommend cuis (not implying that you wouldn't necessarily stick with it)

Have you considered factor? Its from the joy-inspired branch of the forth/concatenative family, but its a heavily underrated, batteries included language. Which has a bit of a smalltalk feel given its image-based deployment and the "live" nature of its tools (graphical repl, object inspectors, etc)

picolisp has an interesting solution to this. A single ']' will close all open )'s for that block of code

Hmm, leaving the naked bigotry dripping from your "comment" aside (a question for mods, not me), I'll just say: preaching from a CIA-funded ISIS training manual has less in common with Islam than the Waco Branch Davidians or Moonies have with Roman Catholicism.

I thought this level of off-the-charts anti-Muslim misinformation was going out of fashion, after enough people in the West started realizing how much of a knuckle-dragging lie-strewn psyop it all was.

What's it doing here on HN?

Hey, greetings from another former nedit user. It was my refuge from emacs on my 1997 redhat setup as I was stumbling around learning the ropes (I had to keep referring To my "Linux in a nutshell" book to remind myself how to open, save & quit in emacs)

Nedit was a godsend, until I decided to look into that other weird editor (vim) that I kept hearing about (circa 1999 or so) ...

That would be apt and hilarious, at the same time ...

You're right that the US is not in the same universe as the Stasi was.

The US steals more data and conducts more illicit monitoring of people in a day than the Stasi ever could in a year. Its just that the Stasi lived in an analog world, so you had lots of PHYSICAL material leftover for people to point at in faux horror.

Even now, the US is busily deploying electric shock gloves whose main selling point, DIRECT FROM THE MOUTHS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT, is that they allow pain to be administered to enforce "compliance", without leaving any real evidence.

And they are being trialed in Nebraska. On ... SCHOOL CHILDREN.

(and to complete the dystopian joke, check out the name of the company selling these Dr Doom gloves)

Whats that you hear? Howls of outrage & dissaproval from the denizens of "The Land of the Free" (tm)?

Err, no. Its just the wind blowing leaves around.

You sir are the proverbial frog who has been in the pan so long, he doesn't realise he's being boiled alive

To piggyback, EVERYTHING you see in cuis is hardware accelerated vector graphics, even the fonts. You can individually zoom windows, buttons, text, anything - in or out. Rotate them. And still have crisp, elegantly rendered full-unicode (even IN code) text.

Can I suggest you take a look at Cuis Smalltalk (a simplified fork from squeak), and any of the talks given by Juan Vuletich (main author of cuis). In Cuis, Juan took morphic back to basics and updated it heavily. Now submorphs use relative geometry (not absolute), and everything is hardware accelerated vector graphics - EVEN THE FONTS.

Seriously, reading Unicode enhanced code in a 45 degree tilted editor window, while zooming in and out just for kicks (all of this can be done by manipulating the morph with its halo's menu) just to see how crisp everything is - thats FUN!

Also, try taking apart the standard system browser (4 panes + editor), rearrange everything as per your tastes (by drag & drop), and ... everything still works

The real truth is that Israel is happy to flatten entire, crowded, apartment complexes. That "one guy" is just an excuse.

Most recent example (out of at least 100,000 examples in just these last 3 years alone) would be their "defence" (hah!) minister delightedly boasting how they have Gaza'fied South Lebanon and destroyed over 15,000 structures.

Let's see. They were part of the US military, right? In just this war alone, they started by triple tapping an ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, murdering nearly 200 little children.

And on the same day, they attacked a SPORTS STADIUM, completely vapourising a women's volleyball team who were in the midst of a game.

And that was just ... DAY ONE.

By now, we should be asking - if you're a member of the US military on active duty in an active war - prove that YOU DIDN'T kill a child, mother, handicapped person in a wheelchair, or a grandpa.

Truth hurts, doesn't it?

You speak of strawmen, yet completely miss what I said, and make up stuff I never said (ironic, huh). I'll make it simple for you.

The pathetic state of football governance is, largely, down to corrupt EUROPEAN admins (UEFA or not). The only main non-Euro contributor I can recall in my lifetime was Havelange.

And the previous imbalance in spreading revenues commensurate with the talent (and its the talent, much if it African, which makes the product so appealing, hence the revenues) is largely (not entirely) down to Europe insisting on keeping hold of the bulk of it.

This situation is being rectified, but MY POINT WAS that the existence of this unfair situation created a playing field which allowed corrupt & unscrupulous mobsters (Blatter, Infantino, etc) to get THEIR personal agenda through on the back of pretending to combat the above.

Literally no-one thinks Infantino is good for the "game". But there are those FA's (even some in Europe) who think he might be better for THEIR countries. And thats not easily waved away by saying "oh, they're just personally corrupt Africans, etc". There was an underlying unfairness in the system IN THE FIRST PLACE.

And THE ENTIRE POINT of my original post was pointing out where the origin of this ORIGINAL SYSTEMIC UNFAIRNESS came from.

None of this was an attempt at whitewashing corruption & mismanagement in African or Asian FA's. The background point, which went WAY above your head, is that in the worst case - they're about as bad as their European counterparts.

Before you eulogize UEFA too much (ok, too late, you already did), answer me this.

Where did Infantino come from? Answer: UEFA

And for that matter, which continent did his predecessor Sepp Blatter start his football admin career in? Hint: he's not from Asia or Africa

Probably the most widely admired admin in big-time football right now is al-Khalifa, the head of PSG. A Qatari. You know - those guys who organized by common consent is considered the best World Cup in modern times (during which EUROPEAN teams were ostentatiously protesting on the pitch - while keeping VERY quiet WHEN playing a World Cup in a country who is still facilitating an ONGOING GENOCIDE) .

And from reports, he doesn't want to touch FIFA with a 10 foot barge pole.

Europe had managed to keep the lions share of footballs global revenues to itself, while keeping Africa as basically a "football nursery" where teenagers get almost trafiked across Europe before 90% are discarded.

This is one of the reasons why a (corrupt, mendacious & sly) Infantino had some support across Africa & Asia. Because he played off that imbalance. Rather like one mafioso giving you "protection" against another mafia mob.

Just saying, Europe & UEFA arent necessarily the angels in any of this ...