I did a simple test, googled for "smalltalk jobs", and the fourth result was a link to this page: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyIsSmalltalkDead, which contains historical info and some rants about the ups and downs of Smalltalk use.
But had a link to a Paul Graham's essay I read many years ago, which is still valuable, and helps getting a better insight: http://paulgraham.com/popular.html Best regards! -- Esteban. ps: I did a search for "pharo jobs" and only found a reference to Netstyle's search :) Esteban A. Maringolo 2014-04-29 14:14 GMT-03:00 Sebastian Sastre <[email protected]>: > > On Apr 29, 2014, at 2:08 PM, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why do some people prefer rock music and others classical music? Its about > the patterns they know. Our brains naturally try to cram each experience > into a pattern it already knows. I remember when I used to dislike Jazz > music - I couldn't "understand it". Then I started to listen to Jamiroquai > a lot - a funky Jazz/Techno hybrid. Then later I found that I had learned > to like Jazz - I could now "understand it" and know its patterns - but I > needed a stepping stone to get there. It might be that some starts using > Pharo with their favourite text editor as a comfort factor, as a stepping > stone, and then migrates over time to the standard editors. So that is a > path to draw in new users - but of course that takes effort to set up. > cheers -ben > > > This is interesting, you’re talking of acquired taste here. > > Things that needs time and context and repetition to sink in. > > What’s also interesting is Jamiroquai, because he’s work was your bridge to > Jazz. > > He did the inception. > > Now the question is this: > > Who in the industry is functioning as our Jamiroquai? >
