Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] Could we keep Pharo-dev for Pharo-dev?
Frank wrote:
I don't see how "[t]he gaming system doesn't work for non-mainstream technologies" can be true. F#, Clojure, Haskell are hardly mainstream technologies, and SO works just great for them.
It doesn't for smalltalk. Just take a look at top users for [smalltalk] and compare. Then look at the questions and compare the homework to other ones. F# and Clojure are seen by mainstream users of respectively java and C# as interesting technology to possibly switch to. The smallest of them already has 7 times as many questions. Max wrote:
There are also a couple of outstanding answers to problems in the Smalltalk world on SO that I doubt you would find on the mailing lists.
100% of them are given by people who also answer those questions on the mailing lists. Stephan
Le 15 janv. 2015 12:20, "Stephan Eggermont" <stephan@stack.nl> a écrit :
Frank wrote:
I don't see how "[t]he gaming system doesn't work for non-mainstream technologies" can be true. F#, Clojure, Haskell are hardly mainstream technologies, and SO works just great for them.
It doesn't for smalltalk. Just take a look at top users for [smalltalk] and compare. Then look at the questions and compare the homework to other ones.
F# and Clojure are seen by mainstream users of respectively java and C# as interesting technology to possibly switch to. The smallest of them
already
has 7 times as many questions.
Max wrote:
There are also a couple of outstanding answers to problems in the Smalltalk world on SO that I doubt you would find on the mailing lists.
100% of them are given by people who also answer those questions on the mailing lists.
Stephan
Traffic increases as a sign of traction/engagement and we want to silence things. Yeah sure. Put a tag in the title and filter on that. Phil
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