The one things I trully miss, even know that I am "experieced" Pharo coder, depending on your standards, is python namespaces��

I dont care about the dot syntax but containers of containers at language level that will make me avoid giving weird names to my Pharo classes to avoid potential collisions is a must have for me. It would also make the System Browser experience much smoother not only for beginners but also experts in Pharo.��

Also again under the threat of being thrown tomoatoes (probably justified) I would not mind a more modular approach to image format, for example having mutlipe files instead one monolithic. Not as a mandatory thing just something optional, the ability to break an image to pieces , send those pieces around so people do not have to close their image to open yours. Fuel covers this case nicely but again it could become a bit more "out of the box" and more automatic. .��

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:22 AM stephan <stephan@stack.nl> wrote:
On 12-10-17 08:30, Markus Stumptner wrote:
> Just to lead this back to the original question.�� What you say is
> undoubtedly true.�� It is not, however, necessarily something that a
> beginner will understand or be able to share in.

That is a very important point. It also explains a lot of why we are
missing certain things that developers coming from other environments
take for granted: they simply provide less value to experienced
smalltalkers. And that is indeed a barrier to entry.

I remember sharply my first looking at squeak, and just not
understanding how I could create a new class or method in a browser.
Another was that I have been programming in seaside for a year without
using senders and implementers. Pair programming for an hour with
Philippe Marschall showed me so much invisible/hidden functionality.

Other (mainstream) environments don't provide the immediate feedback of
navigating, inspecting and manipulating the whole environment, and
therefore newcomers have no appropriate expectations (internal model),
and are clueless on what they are able to do in Pharo. Combined with the
lack of systematic visual clues and the high density of the class
library that makes it not easy to learn.

Stephan