11 Facts About Pharo

Pharo is an open source, cross-platform implementation of the classic Smalltalk-80 programming language and runtime.

Pharo is shipped with a source code compiled into a system image that contains all software necessary to run Pharo system.

Pharo is a pure object-oriented dynamically typed and reflective language.

Name Pharo comes from the French word "phare" which means lighthouse.

Pharo is based on general concepts of Smalltalk but seeks to improve on them so does not limit itself to them.

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Pharo syntax is based on Smalltalk-80 language syntax with several extensions.

Pharo emerged as a fork of Squeak, an open-source Smalltalk environment created by the Smalltalk-80 team .

Pharo was created by S Ducasse [1] and M Denker in March 2008.

Pharo consortium was created for companies wishing to support the Pharo project.

The Pharo association was created in 2011 for users wishing to support the project.

Pharo relies on a virtual machine that is written almost entirely in Smalltalk itself.