On 22 May 2013 20:37, Camillo Bruni <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Sven >>> >>> PS: I occasionally read the Squeak mailing and I see the work that you are >>> doing and it is impressive. Your attitude, approach and drive remind me of >>> the many Pharo developers. I would not dream of convincing you, but IMHO >>> you would fit perfectly in the Pharo community, where you would find more >>> interaction and feedback - maybe you would even reconsider using Smalltalk >>> in business. >> >> Thanks, Sven. I'm really not trying to pick fights over here. And >> perhaps today was a bad day to open my mouth at all, given my >> crankiness level. >> >> I would _love_ to be able to use Smalltalk at work. Until it can work >> properly with git, and people can use their own text editors (vim, >> emacs, sublime), and quite a few other bits and pieces, it's just a >> non-starter. > > that's simply not true, as you can see by all the success stories: > http://files.pharo.org/SuccessStories/
Sorry, I didn't mean in general. I meant at my work. >> I _like_ Pharo, and I _like_ how it has energy and momentum, and a >> much nicer UI than the old Pharo 1.0 UI. I'm honestly quite jealous of >> the resources the community wields, not just because of INRIA's and >> the Consortium's money, but because there are loads of people actually >> around, who are prepared to knuckle down and do the gruntwork needed. >> Squeak is now a very small community. I'm rather proud of what we get >> done with what little we have. > > > that is sad :(, I really think your contribution would be better off > over here. I speak for many at our lab I think, that there is no motivation > to prepare stuff for squeak: burnt once, fooled twice :/ I don't understand that, I really don't. Burnt by what? By whom? frank
