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<p><font size="4">Hi Steve, <br>
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<p><font size="4">Welcome to the Cuis-Smalltalk community!<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 28/06/2024 à 20:57, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:admin@stede.me">admin@stede.me</a>
admin--- via Cuis-dev a écrit :<br>
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<div class="default-style">I always though Smalltalk was just a
language until I fired up the virtual machine. How on Earth did
OOP get detangled from the environment and wind up as Java I
will never know. I never liked OOP but in my first few hours
playing around with it was opened my eyes. </div>
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<p>If you stay long enough with Smalltalk, you will be amazed how
efficient and productive you can be when solving problems with it.
After 20 years of Smalltalk, I am still amazed. Not longer than a
couple of days ago, I was amazed again how good the language and
its environment are to modeling and to solve problem. As a dean at
my school, I have to enroll about 180 students in 8 classes, with
different constraint as some students must be together, other not,
some need to be in specific classes, other not, then you want
equal genders distribution, minimize the isolated students,
minimize the scores variance. I gave it a shot with
Cuis-Smalltlak, worked for two days on the model and the code,
then it generated thousand of enrollment arrangements.</p>
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<div class="default-style"> First, I just wanted to say hello.
Second I have a few basic questions I hope someone could help me
with. I want to focus my image on AI and everything with it
including consciousness, NN, LLMs but particular finding other
solutions to the same goal. If anything were to come from it, I
was wondering if anyone has played around with the concept of
using Smalltalk to translate my code to different languages? </div>
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<p>IMHO, Cuis-Smalltalk will be fantastic to experiment with
different models with live adjustment to your models. You should
get through the Cuis Book, it will give you important insight, an
investment that will save you time later.<br>
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<div class="default-style"> I am also interested in computer
science and software engineering in general and hope to
contribute to the community if I can in any way. </div>
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<p>Yes, there are always plenty of way to contribute: participation
to discussions or events like the monthly Cuis meeting, testing,
proof reading documentation, suggestions, bugs fix, writing
documentation. Just pick up the topic you like.</p>
<p>Hilaire<br>
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