Em 30/12/2010 19:56, Stéphane Ducasse < [email protected] > escreveu:
> 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 Those specific reactions are more likely to be about Squeak of Pharo than Smalltalk in general, isn't? > 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. Yes. They make an excellent litmus test without the risks of expending lots of money in the 'launching of product' which can become an Edsel of the programming languages... > 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.....). Indeed. > 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 believe this is the first step to get the best direction to follow. > I really happy to get exposed to student acid tests, this is a > valuable feedback and I wanted to share that with you. Stef, now comes the rub: do you think it is possible to systematize the lessons learned and post a summary for us here? Perhaps we should open a specific Wiki page on this? Regards, -- Cesar Rabak
