Am 13.08.17 um 18:18 schrieb Frank-B:
Dear Tudor,
I had expected such answers and I feel sorry to have to waste time on
defending the unwanted truth.
You should have noticed how positively I see these activities and how much I
regret that my experiences were mostly negative. I would like to have
contributed and I certainly would have a lot in my framework but I don't
feel that this would be a fruitful ground here. I had given the reasons.
My impression always was that the majority of contributers here are very
eager to create a real-word system that could be used for real applications.
This is why I freely and openly wrote about my impressions and experiences.
If somebody says: "I program for fun and contribute for my ego" - that's
absolutely fine with me. But my impressions did NOT reflect such an
attitude.
Tudor Girba-2 wrote
Hi Frank,
Please be more polite with people that contribute open software that you
have the option of actually playing with at no cost (other than time).
The truth is never unpolite - but in these days of Yankee originated
censorship that is euphemistically called "political correctness" most
people also in Europe are infected by this madness, so that many people do
not want to hear any bitter facts any more.
Saying that the people from around here lack skills is an unnecessary
No that is a lie, I did not write that "they lack skills" nor anything
alike.
I made clear that most do not document and that many often do not really
finish their projects. That has nothing do with skills, rather with
finishing a task properly or only by 85% or 90% - and that has unfortunately
often been my impression in the Squeak/Pharo arena.
IMO that is not special to the Squeak/Pharo community. When you look at
sourceforge or github
you will find a lot abandoned, incomplete or undocumented projects.
Maybe it's more prominent here
because this community is orders of magnitude smaller than others. When
you google for a
solution you typically find a bunch of hits for mainstream languages. So
you can choose between
several alternatives and thus have a high possibility to find something
working for you,
especially when big companies like Google are involved.
Regards
Andreas
