Hi Toon, I agreeto what have you said but as i am a beginner to smalltalk i
need lot of help to get a good grip over it and moreover unlike other
mainstream languages there are not much documents or professional from which i
can get some guidance about it. And i feel as Smalltalk is quite vast and
different in structure from the other mail(with my two month experiance and i
may be wrong), a beginner needs some proper guidance to get his hands over
smalltalk. So, i just request you to kindly guide me to how should i get into
smalltalk. Thanks&Regards, Sourav Original message From:"Toon Verwaest"<
[email protected] >Date: 5 May 11 13:29:11Subject: Re: [Pharoproject]
Popularity of Smalltalk in Software IndustryTo:
[email protected],I can tell you that independent of how the
industry might perceive the language Smalltalk, learning Smalltalk will make
you personally a better software engineer. And this is what the industry does
want. You will look at prog
ramming from a new angle and this will give you an edge. This is also true for
learning other old languages like Scheme or Lisp. As long as you stay within
your Java / .NET bubble you will be one in a billion. If you learn Smalltalk,
the fact you know something that other people might not makes you more special.
The only negative part of learning Smalltalk while working on other types of
applications is that you will eat your shoe 95% of the time hating that Java /
.NET aren't more evolved and flexible :)As it seems that you are already
working on a project revolving around Smalltalk, be very happy that you are
getting the opportunity to learn it; you'll come out for the better.Lastly,
don't care too much about popularity within industry. If you take the time to
learn the systems for yourself you will probably learn to understand the
differences yourself. You are currently also part of industry and obviously
don't know Smalltalk well yet; how informed was your decision to no
t know Smalltalk? You are part of "the industry" making other people not
choose Smalltalk based on your (non)choice of not using Smalltalk; if they
would all think this way! Sheep won't change anything :)cheers,ToonOn
05/05/2011 07:38 AM, sourav roy wrote:Hi All, I have just started my career in
Software/IT industry and got into a project which involes
enhancement/maintainance of product built in Smalltalk. I was never exposed to
this language before and have no idea if it is used in the Industry as
popularly as JAVA and .NET and looks like its a DEADlanguage for the industry.
I may be wrong but i need some clarification about it. I just want to know that
why smalltalk is not so popular as the other OOPs Languages and what is the
future prospect ofone if he/she is into Smalltalk development.Looking for some
positive note so that it may give me some entho for working with Smalltalk.
Thanks&Regards, Sourav Roy Get Yourself a cool, short @in.com Email ID now!Get
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