Thanks janko. We should pay attention to get old guys in a private club sure that we understand everything when kids are ruling the world out there. Let us the kids kick our truth, we will just get more credible and stronger.
Stef On Dec 30, 2010, at 11:11 PM, Janko Mivšek wrote: > 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 >
