Re: [Pharo-users] About "it's not pharo but smalltalk"
I've never posted to /r/smalltalk. There's no point in preaching to the choir. I posted to /r/programming and everybody there tried to lynch me. Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list wrote
FWIW I am one of the mods of /r/smalltalk - happy to have material
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On Feb 5, 2020, at 13:12, horrido <
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Reddit is a strange bird. I have found more resistance to Smalltalk there than from any other source on the planet. Moreover, those people *really* don't appreciate me evangelizing anything. Consequently, I've avoided Reddit like the plague.
I don't know what kind of readership exists at Reddit, but they are openly hostile. So you'll forgive me if I don't lend much credence to what Redditors say.
Pavel Krivanek-3 wrote
st 5. 2. 2020 v 20:48 odesÃlatel horrido <
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> napsal:
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?
If you're an evangelist, you have to develop a thick skin and follow your heart. Otherwise, get out of the kitchen...
You are a victim of your own strong confirmation bias. I hardly can break it but I just want to point out that in the mentioned discussion, there was no fan of you (and there were more people complaining than the two I mentioned).
Pavel Krivanek-3 wrote
st 5. 2. 2020 v 19:02 odesÃlatel horrido <
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> napsal:
You want to take the Smalltalk heritage as a definition, thatâs ok. We donât, and thatâs ok too. Is about what we want to do.
Who's "we"?
Last time I checked, nobody owns Pharo. Pharo is not a bunch of core developers; it's a community. And I believe there are many Pharoers who share my view.
Since I'm a Smalltalk evangelist and not a Pharo evangelist, I guess I shouldn't ever mention Pharo in my blog. After all, if it's not Smalltalk, why should I promote it???
Pharo 8.0 release Reddit discussion included some feedback you may appreciate:
"Thanks. Does this Pharo release removes feature "Richard Kenneth Eng"? That was the only feature in detriment to such an excellent environment as Pharo."
"I really like the idea of pharo's features and smalltalk is quite interesting, but I can't help but be put off by the insanely stupid marketing culture around it. Most articles about it exaggerate way too much and seem like they're written by people who were paid to write about it. Or maybe I'm reading Medium-cancer too much."
In fact, this is disastrous for my JRMPC competition since it's based entirely on Pharo. I'm promoting Smalltalk but pushing Pharo on all the participating teams??? What the f*ck am I doing?!!
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