2014-05-15 17:26 GMT-03:00 Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]>: > > On 15 May 2014, at 22:13, kmo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes, this is all about marketing. But I think being smalltalk is a marketing >> plus. It was for me. Who are these people who will run a mile at the mention >> of smalltalk? And if they hate smalltalk so much, are they not going to be >> disappointed when they find out that pharo is just another version of the >> dead language they have always shunned? > > Let's say that the people who know Smalltalk will come anyway, > because they understand the lineage. > There is no real point in preaching to those who are already converted.
All the previous dialects were advertised as "a new Smalltalk dialect" (from IBM, Cincom, you name it). This time we could, at least, try to advertise it differently. > You would be surprised how little young people know about older languages and > technologies, there is a reason why everything is being reinvented all the > time ;-) I'm not surprised about that, I'm scared. Esteban A. Maringolo
