Hi Sebastian,

Noel is actually my academic older brother (i.e., we had the same doctoral advisor). Noel's introduction is nice but it is to people who know how to program (specifically, Ruby programmers). That's useful. The Pharo books and YouTube videos do this very well. But, you also need to provide a way in for people who are learning to program. One thing you could do is provide a book that could be used at a university to teach object-oriented programming.

Cheers,

Jeff

Da: Pharo-dev [mailto:pharo-dev-bounces@lists.pharo.org] Per conto di Sebastian Sastre
Inviato: venerd� 9 gennaio 2015 19:07
A: Pharo Development List
Oggetto: Re: [Pharo-dev] from 2009's The "death" of Smalltalk to 2014's But Really, You Should Learn Smalltalk

 

Hi Jochen,

 

have in mind that the talk you referred is from 2009 and many controversial things happened in the Ruby community at that time.

 

Coming closer to today, we just had this presentation which presents Smalltalk better than many Smalltalkers I’ve heard!

 

Want to show off smalltalk to non-smalltalker audiences in an effective way? watch and learn!

 
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