Frank wrote: >I don't see how "[t]he gaming system doesn't work for non-mainstream >technologies" can be true. F#, Clojure, Haskell are hardly mainstream >technologies, and SO works just great for them.
It doesn't for smalltalk. Just take a look at top users for [smalltalk] and compare. Then look at the questions and compare the homework to other ones. F# and Clojure are seen by mainstream users of respectively java and C# as interesting technology to possibly switch to. The smallest of them already has 7 times as many questions. Max wrote: >There are also a couple of outstanding answers to problems in the >Smalltalk world on SO that I doubt you would find on the mailing lists. 100% of them are given by people who also answer those questions on the mailing lists. Stephan
