On Apr 19, 2010, at 09:10 , Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > On Apr 19, 2010, at 1:56 AM, Stephen Taylor wrote: > >> Henrik Johansen wrote: >> >>> Gotta love reddit... >> [...] >>> - "I don't know what Smalltalk is, and the site doesn't tell me, not even >>> the about page!" >> >> That one I think is legitimate - and not just for Pharo but for almost every >> Open Source project out there. I think every project's home page should keep >> first time in visitors in mind. (My very least favourite thing for the first >> page of a site is to see the project commit log - talk about unwelcoming!). > > Good remark. > Thanks. > Does anybody have some text we could reuse?
I think that anybody that is enough interested will be able to type "Smalltalk" into Google. Next, people are going to ask what a programming language is, and we have to explain that too ;) Anyway, couldn't we just link the first occurrence of "Smalltalk" to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk? >> And to say something positive - Pharo 1.0 looks great - solid and serious >> and workable. A couple of my co-workers have called my bluff and asked for a >> Smalltalk tutorial, and I'll be happy to show them Pharo. Thanks :) Cheers, Adrian _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
