Oh! I like your approach..

Let me quickly clarify my situation. In that section of the article, I was referring to my workplace. In my case, no one else in the dev department knows smalltalk. In a great many workplaces, devs don���t really want to learn a new language / framework without going off to a developer summer camp or something like that.

I have found that once a developer gets to a certain level of competence, they can quickly (in a weekend?) get up to speed on the use of a new language / framework to get their project done.

For a long time, I felt the sting of the ���most popular language lists��� as companies wanted to start all projects in PHP so that if the senior devs moved on, they could just hire some kids ���cheap, just out of school��� to work on the project.

i do think there are lots of things about to change Pharo���s place in the world, especially the Pharo MOOC..