> For Squeak/Etoys/Scratch it's quite clear. Teaching programming to children. > IMHO, there is no better software to teach childen. Alan Kay as community > organizer and figurehead leading a crowd of followers. There is a community > of people, driving that stuff slowly, but steadily forward.
I will not comment that one :) > In germany its HPI investing lots into building up knowledge in > Smalltalk/Squeak/EToys. Money comes from SAP founder. Very idealistic man. I do not think so. Money does not come for that. Now that students develop etoy projects > The situation of Pharo reminds me a bit of Dolphin Smalltalk: Where's the > customer who urgently needs such a product? > > There are a lot of free competitors around: Smalltalk/X, GNU, Little, Vista > ... Little, Vista really :) I let them to you :) > It's not easy to explain the differences of concepts behind those > smalltalks. But it's much harder to explain, why we need to invest more time > and sink more money into a (commercially) "sinking boat" of technology. don't worry we will succeed. ... > But: I still can't figure out, where exactly Pharo or Smalltalk as software > technology could occupy a vacant market niche or even set standards. Of course if you compare Pharo with system that got multimillion dollars. Now our goal is to make sure that people will be able to make business with an open-source smalltalk and that we will start to rethink the infrastructure. Now we were talking about 120 Euros per year!!!! The basic shareware software I buy for my machine cost 60 Euros. Stef _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
