Stef, very true, I agree 100%

Janko

On 30. 12. 2010 22:56, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
> Hi guys
> 
> I think that over the years I (but also many of you, I know) tried to expose 
> newbies to smalltalk or our culture. 
> And often we get bad reactions, bad windows, bad colors, slow, why not in 
> svn, .....
> I think that showing Smalltalk to newbies is the best we can do to ourselves, 
> not really to attract new people
> but also to get a large kick in the %^&* because most of the time students 
> are not stupid, they are exposed to 
> other technos. So each time we believe we want to show them something cool 
> and they do not really 
> consider it as cool as we believe, we can of course think that they are idiot 
> (some of them are) but 
> most of the time we can also think that may be we stayed too long in our 
> little boxes and the world
> moved (interfaced well with c, fast, cool frameworks, has cool tools, 
> processes (integration...), cool UIs, web stuff.....).
> So each time we get down because we do not see the little flame opening in 
> the yes of the others
> we can think hard and get from them what we missed.
> 
> I really happy to get exposed to student acid tests, this is a valuable 
> feedback and I wanted to share that with you.
> 
> Stef
> 

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Janko Mivšek
AIDA/Web
Smalltalk Web Application Server
http://www.aidaweb.si

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