On Sep 21, 2011, at 9:45 PM, St��phane Ducasse wrote:
> Since I work too much I'm tired and when I'm tired I have strange thoughts :)
> Let us see what they are (if of any interest)
>
> I do not really know if people realize that in fact we could be payed for building our own private little toy
> and we could publish cool papers, looks smart and look at ourselves quite proudly in the mirror the morning.
> The look of the guy that accomplished his duty and is quite cool too.
> This would be a perfect life: a full life of a brillant researcher having fun with his little toys. Students
> of course would have fun with us and we would be a happy family. Imagine we could even write
> books, little books and everybody would be happy. flower, butterflies and the rest...
>
> Now we decided to do pharo. Why: because we want other people to be able to make a living out of it.
>
> I'm not sure that people deeply understand that. We do pharo (of course so that we can experiment crazy ideas
> but we could have probably do that better in Scheme from my experience) because we want others to be empowered
> and in the position of making money with it and changing/controlling their life because they are not forced to use
> something that they do not like.
>
> So this means that each time we spend time on it (we = the community) we make sure that others or the community
> can feed their kids based on our labor. For me this is a cool task and I enjoyed doing it even if sometimes my moral
> is low because I would like to go much much faster.
>
> You could think that we should have better done to have fun
> with our little toys and sometimes I think that yes this could be true. But we decided that it was more rewarding
> to build real systems with customers that are not always happy, have bugs. So when you have strong expectations,
> bold statements about Pharo think also that this is the simple work of people most of the time not payed to do it and that nicely
> share it.
>
> We know where we want to go, sometimes the system does not get the shape we want. but each little peebles after the other
> one we shape it. Now you can also help to make it better.
>
> Stef
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