[email protected] wrote > Then it’s a failed decision as Reddit reactions proves.
I think that's a bit premature. The reaction on Reddit was because there was no mention on the Pharo site/release-notice of Smalltalk *anywhere*. There was no path to take people from the sound bite to the full picture (I'm writing some thoughts on that right now and will start a separate thread). You don't wave the white flag after losing one battle! And certainly not when the evidence of losing even that battle is a few commenters on Reddit! We learned an important lesson - if we're not going to provide people with a neat little pink plane Smalltalk box to put Pharo in, then we better have some good answers as to what it /really/ is when they start investigating. Each one of those criticisms is an opportunity. The useful question is - what supporting explanation on the website would have taken their initial curiosity, possibly enabled by not being turned off by a misunderstanding of the word "Smalltalk", and guided them down the path of understanding the fuller picture that - it is an environment, and a library, and a dialect of the Smalltalk language. ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/a-Pharo-talk-from-a-ruby-conference-tp4756805p4757341.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
