I agree with this sentiment. I have been trying to learn Smalltalk with the
help of 'Squeak by Example', but while it is a good read, it is almost useless
as a reference.
When I have a Python issue, I type (for example), "initialize multi-dimensional
array Python" into Google and get 14,000 responses. Replace 'Python' with
'Smalltalk' and I get 2,000, most of which aren't about Smalltalk, and I still
haven't found a code example.
There are a number of books on-line, but some don't even have tables of
contents or indexes, and they're all in .pdf, which makes them extremely
cumbersome to use as references.
I, of course, only speak for myself, but I am officially closing my current
foray into Smalltalk. It's too hard to learn. There's not adequate reference
material. There are very few code examples.
If, at some point in the future, Smalltalk becomes easier to learn, I will try
again. Until then, I'm going back to Python.
I mentioned on the Pharo IRC channel that I was a Django developer, and would
consider building a site to assist with getting the material inside these books
onto the web, and I will continue to think about that. If there's any
interest, please let me know.
Kind regards,
Robert Peters
Having better comment than
buildWith: aBuilder
^self subclassResponsibility
is needed if we want to continue to bash Java people.
So what do we do?
Stef
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