On 20 September 2014 08:45, phil@highoctane.be <phil@highoctane.be> wrote:
A Le 20 sept. 2014 03:27, "Alain Rastoul" <alf.mmm.cat@gmail.com> a écrit :
Le 20/09/2014 02:33, phil@highoctane.be a écrit :
We'll prevail!
What we also need to do is to showcase the Smalltalk workflow and how nice it is.
We cannot gain mindshare by technical prowess only.
Phil
I totally agree with you, but I think that those technical advances are vital in current technology trends (saas, cloud, server side dev) and progress in this field is important.
Despite the fact I think that Smalltalk still has an advance in object oriented systems/development, and offers a different perception it is hard to get the point about object system with people who are formatted by the hype or by their experience. Discussing with collegues about some smalltalk concepts is always interesting :)
I am facing quite some people who are in the FP bandwagon and wonder how to bridge with their views. Like classes are just functions etc.
The article that convinced me that objects are higher order functions (that close over a set of variables) is here: http://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/guest/chap2.html The meat of the article (as far as class/object/function correspondences goes) starts at "Let over Lambda". frank
Phil