On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:58 PM, kilon alios <[email protected]> wrote:
> very cool presentation. Definitely you need to add this to the new > website. > > Question : Why in every presentation we have to apologise why smalltalk is > dead / extinct ? > > As a newcomer to Smalltalk I find it quite annoying. Its not as if I came > to Smalltalk without knowing that is not popular. The vast majority of > languages out there are so more unpopular than Smalltalk, yet they don't > have this "sorry that I am dead" mentality to them. > > Pharo is a strategic platform to me. Productivity on that thing cannot be beaten. Still had proof today when looking for a nasty bug. Phil > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]>wrote: > >> … more a Smalltalk one using Pharo: >> >> MountainWest RubyConf 2014 >> >> Noel Rappin: "But Really, You Should Learn Smalltalk” >> >> Smalltalk has mystique. We talk about it more than we use it. It seems >> like it should be so similar to Ruby. It has similar Object-Oriented >> structures, it even has blocks. But everything is so slightly different, >> from the programming environment, to the 1-based arrays, to the simple >> syntax. Using Smalltalk will make you look at familiar constructs with new >> eyes. We’ll show you how to get started on Smalltalk, and walk through some >> sample code. Live coding may be involved. You’ll never look at objects the >> same way again. >> >> >> http://www.confreaks.com/videos/3284-mwrc-but-really-you-should-learn-smalltalk >> > >
