I'm not sure whose feedback I should regard as wisdom. This uncertainty stems from a key philosophical difference I had 5 years ago. Read Interview with a Smalltalk Evangelist <https://medium.com/@richardeng/interview-with-a-smalltalk-evangelist-711e3f1...> . At the time, I don't think anybody agreed with me philosophically. I imagine most of you /still/ don't agree with me. So given this disagreement, how can I regard any feedback as wisdom?
but given your recent questions in the list, you don't today.
You are correct, I'm no longer much of a programmer today. I retired many years ago and I've grown rusty. Nevertheless, my background qualifies me to evangelize a programming language at an overview level. I may not be able to evangelize at a technical code level, but at a conceptual level, I certainly can. Esteban A. Maringolo wrote
On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 4:48 PM horrido <
horrido.hobbies@
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I learned a long time ago that you can't please everybody. I've heard the critics about my evangelism. I've also heard the praise.
So what am I supposed to do? Listen to the critics and ignore the fans?
tr;dr answer: know who you listen to.
But if you've been for a while (it is, years) here in this tiny tribe (in global scale) that is the Smalltalk community, you'd pay attention to the critics from many whose feedback can be treated as wisdom.
In particular when you're promoting something that you might have mastered in the past, but given your recent questions in the list, you don't today.
Smalltalk as a concept lacks a good PR these days, so does Pharo as a product (although non-commercial), but Pharo has been successful in growing organically and create some kind of grassroots, albeit slow.
And in technical environments bad PR is counterproductive and if you push too hard it usually fires back.
Regards,
Esteban A. Maringolo
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