I DO like this Vision. I remember myself about 8 years ago trying to give my first steps in Smalltalk on my own. Despite I had solid OOP knowledge it took a while to understand that there was no "main" function. All my experience was with Java and C++ and I couldn't understand where was the entry point of my application if there were no main.
Of course, today things are totally different, there are many resources on the web but I think that we still can improve that, implementing improvements in the environment and generating more and better training resources. Saludos! Nico. blog: nicopaez.wordpress.com > Hi guys > > Some days ago we were chatting with igor and he made an interesting remark > about a kind of hidden philosophy > behind pharo: the idea that we systematically want to make the system > better. > In fact I realized that what we are doing is to make a system nice, robust > and powerful so that everybody can use > to realize their goals. But we want to have a system where not only smart > guys can manage to do something with it but also > less talented people like me (I know that some of you will say but stef you > are good, I'm a newbie in a lot of domains but > I learn fast if I can get a chance to avoid to bump on the walls). I want a > system that let me learn from itself. > I think that lot of things fall naturally in place from this vision > (documentation, oo practices - not having car inheriting from wheel, tests > comments, adequate abstractions, modularity). I want a system that > everybody can nicely build his own software. > So in short I want pharo to be like a nice garden with greenhouses for > building new garden with tools versus a jungle where > only skilled adventurers can make it through. > > Stef > > >
