Sorry Stef it will never happen.��
The issue here is not that Pharo is Smalltalk , the problem here is that you promote something that is too good to be true.
Coders live in a denial state for decades now . The denial is about not wanting to recognize that even my hardware is 10000 times better in processing power and more than 50000 better in storage , the software is barely 10 times better than my first computer 30 years ago.
Software is anchored in Stone Age for decades now and is not even a secret.��
This was one of the big reasons I decided to not become a pro coder and this is decades before being introduced to lisp and Smalltalk.
The success of Pharo depends on people being open minded scientists but coding is nothing more than a closed minded religion masquareding as a science.��
Web developers being the worst, especially web dev bloggers.��
There is a reason why every single well designed software is highly unpopular.��
Fortunately there are exceptions like Pharo that have reignited my hope in investing in professional coding. Most of all open source have made it easy for that software to reach a bigger crowd.��
This is enough for me not to care.��
People were laughing at my face when I was saying that Blender will become one of the top three 3D apps , something unheard of for open source a decade ago. People were laughing at my face when iPad was released when I said that it will be a tool used by professional that will replace laptops . People were laughing at my face when Apple announced that it would no longer support flash and I said that this marked the end of flash . And so on.��
So I now code and mind my own business and keep my ideas to myself most of the time. Unless of course I find some open minds.��
People love progress but they hate change
And I am no exception to this rule either, sad but true��
The good news is that things still do improve in the end, slowly but steadily. So yes this something worth fighting for.��
Since people believe that new equals better, we market Pharo as new.
And Pharo is new and it will continue to improve so this is not even a lie
:)
There is a reason why we decided to go that road and avoid to always say
to people that we use a language
designed nearly 40 years ago.
But you can try :)
Stef
On Sun, 01 Jan 2017 14:05:12 +0100, horrido <horrido.hobbies@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Wow! *In just one day*, the Slashdot story added another thousand
> pageviews
> to my TechBeacon article!
>
> However, if you look at the comments, there's an awful lot of disdain for
> Smalltalk. It appears that Slashdot is inhabited by a lot of ignorant and
> opinionated programmers. I did not realize this.
>
> I'm trying to respond to the negative comments, but it's getting
> overwhelming...
>
>
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