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