But thats not the point I am trying to make and what Guido is talking about in the video.��

The summary of those two minutes is that "you dont want to contribute your code to us because as soon as you do you are trapped by our huge scary monster of backward compatibility and we wont tolerate any change to the design"��

So you end up being a nomad because you want to be flexible, you dont even know if at some point you decide to rewrite your code because the code may be very experimental.��

The cool thing about nomads that they are extremely flexible unlike Cathedrals ;)��

Pharo right now is in the "honeymoon" period of expanding and expanding , as new , fresh thing. But the more user it will get the more inflexible will become to change. That's a big price to pay for abandoning the nomad life.��



On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr> wrote:

On 03 Feb 2015, at 13:59, kilon alios <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:

I do agree, that nomads do not build cathedrals but there is the flip side of the coin, why one would want to be a nomad and the great benefits coming with being a nomad��

Guido the creator of python explains it from the side of the Python Standard library but I think it applies fine for Pharo too��


he makes the point at 49th minute for a couple of minutes. Especially if the subject of your coding is quite unconventional putting it inside a standard distribution can be a huge wast of time that not only can offer limited benefits but even decrease the quality of the code substantially.��

The idea is not that everything should be added��� the idea is that we do experiments (or commercial projects), and *after* we re-assess if��
the changes that where needed to make those real make sense to be feed back into the main system.
Often it is just parts, and in all ���research��� cases a real engineering pass is needed: research prototypes are just good enough to publish a paper��� every minute
spend doing more means publishing less, which is hurting your research career.
(Research is a very nomadic activity���)

Thanks for the slides. I am using Pharo for a couple of years and I am amazed how far it has come , keep up the great work.��


Thanks!

Marcus