It is good when an "outsider" talks about your stuff, they have views we simply can't have because reflection is not always possible.
I think he nails the point about the shift from what's become important and what not (24:45), and the monolithic or mandatory approach of Smalltalk in general, vs the small utilities working together (Mainly Rule of Composition and Rule of Diversity). http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html I think this has to do with the fact that Smalltalk was born with a GUI, and then built down from there, instead of being born as a command line program with an added GUI layer on top. However, thank you for sharing, it is a good presentation. And I like to see the enthusiasm of other when they meet Smalltalk. The MagLev presentation is good too (http://www.confreaks.com/videos/3285-mwrc-maglev-from-download-to-deploy). Regards! Esteban A. Maringolo 2014-04-28 13:12 GMT-03:00 Marcus Denker <[email protected]>: > … 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
