Sorry for the flam below. I didn't have the time and energy to rewrite it.
>>> Now for the documentation when did you send an help documentation for any >>> part of the system? >>> Or a bug fix? >>> I find quite funny that people always talk but few are doing. We welcome >>> comments/examples help. No, I report things on the mailing list, and I complain here and there about the narrow-mindedness of Smalltalk-evangelists. And when it comes to documentation, I document that RoarVM you might have heard of. If that is not interesting for you, sorry, we just don't share the same interests. >> No need to get into a cat-fight here :) > > No this is not my point. But what do people really do to help? Stef, if you haven't noticed: I don't care about Smalltalk, and I don't care about Pharo, or any other language out there in particular. I don't share your vision, I have other goals in life. The only thing I do here is to point out the obvious (at least from my narrow-minded perspective). > If this is just to spit out class comment on html I do not call that a > documentation. > Now we can take the book contents and generate html > We have 350 pages in the first book and the same in the second one. > People are free to join and write one or two chapters. That's what I mean. From my perspective, books about programming languages are a wast of effort. You need a good entry level book, that is all it takes. The rest is great online documentation. Unfortunately, Smalltalkers don't know anything outside the image... I don't know how other people work, but I never look into books when I program. They just don't work. They are slow, outdated and hard to search in. Honestly, I don't understand why books are a priority for you when you want to develop a community. You got a good entry level book, so what is the motivation to write another one? As I said, that is obviously my point of view, based on the way my workflow works. I prepare now Clojure assignments for my students, and there is also not a lot documentation out there, but all I need is centrally accessible at a place I easily identified with google. There is exactly one important window on my screen: http://clojure.github.com/clojure/clojure.core-api.html Thanks to my browsers search, everything is there. The Clojure book on my desk is just lying there and collecting dust... Best regards Stefan -- Stefan Marr Software Languages Lab Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr Phone: +32 2 629 2974 Fax: +32 2 629 3525
