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Hello.

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In this lecture I want to show you
the vision behind Pharo.

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Why are people taking part in Pharo?

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This will help you to understand

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where Pharo is going
and why people use it.

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The basic idea is to create

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a tool, an infrastructure,

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which will enable people
to reinvent their future,

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to use the web in new ways,

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to create new tools,
new forms of computation and so on...

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For this, the notion of an engine
is very important.

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It means the infrastructure,
the compiler, the services

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and that sort of thing.

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On a twin track, there's the idea
of creating an ecosystem

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in which innovation
creates new things

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to give us a competitive edge,

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and in which business can bloom.

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So how do we understand
this metaphor of ecosystem?

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Via the teachers. There are
30 universities around the world

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which teach Pharo.

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Via the research groups.

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There are 15 or so research groups

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doing software engineering,
but not only that,

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around the world.

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And via the companies.

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The basic idea of Pharo

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is not to be an academic language,

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but to be a language used by people
in order to make money

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and live off their programming.

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You can see some success stories
on the website.

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Here's the address.

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You can really see
what people do with it.

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I'm often surprised
at what people do with Pharo.

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It's not just cool
because we say it is.

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People do real stuff with it.

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You have to realise
that for the development team

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Pharo is a vehicle.

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We're the guys in black
around the Formula 1 car.

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We improve it every day.

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Pharo isn't something finished,

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it's something
that's constantly being improved.

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It's quite young
for a programming language.

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It began in 2008.

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The more it advances,
the more exciting its future looks.

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I'll say a bit about that.

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Most companies
do web content now with Pharo

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because the web stack is excellent.

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We're going to use Seaside

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in this course,
but we can also use REST.

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There are several HTTP servers
that are used.

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It's a company that developed
Pharo the HTTP server.

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There's the micro server Teapot.

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You have the WebSockets
and identifications.

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Metadescription of data to avoid
generating automatic forms.

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Connections to databases,
whether SQL or relational.

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And loads of protocols.
Some come out every day.

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People make packages
which cover these functions.

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Pharo is open.

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What this means is that you can help
and have an impact,

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but at least read
and have access to Pharo.

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One important thing

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which people have trouble
putting into concrete terms

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is that Pharo is a system
which enables you.

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Here I'm showing you
a quotation from an American

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who changed
a very fundamental aspect of Pharo:

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the delay.

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It's a function for adjusting
the concurrency in the system.

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He found that it couldn't
be tested in isolation.

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He suggested changes in Pharo

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so these functions
could be tested individually.

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And his changes
were incorporated into Pharo.

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What's really interesting
- I'll let you read the quotation -

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is that he says he was really amazed

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that he could simply think of doing it
and do it.

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And similarly, with this slide,
Turtles all the way down,

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meaning there are objects
all the way down,

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the creator of Seaside, who knew
ruby, python, scheme, objective-C,

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developed Seaside
in Pharo's ancestor.

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I asked him why he used Pharo.
He said, "Because I could."

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"I can manipulate the stack
behind the programmers' backs

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"and suggest an abstraction
I couldn't in another language."

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This empowering
is really very interesting.

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I want to talk
about the mid-term vision of Pharo.

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What will Pharo be in about 5 years?

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The core will be bootstrapped.

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Meaning we'll be able
to reconstruct it from itself.

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Which isn't possible
at the moment.

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We'll have a better integration
with OSes and C.

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We can imagine launching a Pharo app
in any C application.

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It'll be a more modular system
with validated distributions.

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If someone writes
an XML parser, for example,

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you'll want to know
if it's passed all the tests,

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if it functions
in whatever version of Pharo,

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if the non-regression rules
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So really using software engineering
to validate

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what is made around the world,

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so the people using Pharo can be
assured of the level of quality.

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There's an effort now to make tools
more powerful than they presently are.

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The idea is to have a system

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that can adapt
as well to a coffee machine

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as to the cloud.

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The Pharo development team
is working on this sort of thing.

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It'll soon be available
for everyone.

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So Pharo, with its aim
to have an impact on real life

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and involve companies,

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has created an industrial consortium.

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The idea is to promote Pharo,

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to sustain its constant development,

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to improve its visibility
and provide support.

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Here are some members
of the Pharo consortium.

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There are small companies
but big ones too, like Lam Research and Thales.

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And a lot of universities
and research groups.