Do we have marketing people?� We need someone selling smalltalk to business people. :P

In most cases (at least here in Argentina), the technology is decided by non technical people (like managers or customers) because they heard something called java and someone recommended it to them...

Sad.

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:43 PM, <csrabak@bol.com.br> wrote:
Em 06/12/2010 18:21, Tudor Girba < tudor.girba@gmail.com > escreveu:

> Hi,
> �I believe Smalltalk is perceived in the following way:
> 1. Smalltalk is cool: 0.01%
> 2. What is Smalltalk?: 19,99%
> 3. Smalltalk is dead: 80%

I think your assessment is not that far from reality... :-(

> It �is hard �to �convince the �2nd �category to �look at �something
> new. �Why should �they? But, �if it's �hard to �convince �someone of
> something new, you need a miracle to convince someone that something
> is �not �dead. �But, �I �think �that a �miracle �like �this �can �be
> administrated in �the form �of cool and �kicking creatures �and then
> tell them that they kick because of Smalltalk :)

I agree on the feeling, I only think we all miss a very important
tactical point here: in what realm is Smalltalk superior to other
technologies? �While we cannot answer this without hesitation and
without half escuses on why this 'superiority' don't show itself,
we're stuck to feelings and trying to present cherry picked 'examples'
of the qualities of our pet language/technology.

The issue some cool and kicking creatures could have been done is not
enough, we need also to be certain we can get newcomers and have them
quickly up to speed in doing so. _That_ has lead other ('younger')
languages to their present status.

--
Cesar Rabak