On Sep 21, 2011, at 11:34 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi Stef, > > From one of those who manages to eke out a living using Pharo, a very big > "Thank You" to you all.
I'm happy :) > > Best regards, > > Mike > > > Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:45:50 > To: An open mailing list to discuss any topics related to an > open-sourceSmalltalk<[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Subject: [Pharo-project] thoughts of a tired but happy man... > > Since I work too much I'm tired and when I'm tired I have strange thoughts :) > Let us see what they are (if of any interest) > > I do not really know if people realize that in fact we could be payed for > building our own private little toy > and we could publish cool papers, looks smart and look at ourselves quite > proudly in the mirror the morning. > The look of the guy that accomplished his duty and is quite cool too. > This would be a perfect life: a full life of a brillant researcher having fun > with his little toys. Students > of course would have fun with us and we would be a happy family. Imagine we > could even write > books, little books and everybody would be happy. flower, butterflies and the > rest... > > Now we decided to do pharo. Why: because we want other people to be able to > make a living out of it. > > I'm not sure that people deeply understand that. We do pharo (of course so > that we can experiment crazy ideas > but we could have probably do that better in Scheme from my experience) > because we want others to be empowered > and in the position of making money with it and changing/controlling their > life because they are not forced to use > something that they do not like. > > So this means that each time we spend time on it (we = the community) we make > sure that others or the community > can feed their kids based on our labor. For me this is a cool task and I > enjoyed doing it even if sometimes my moral > is low because I would like to go much much faster. > > You could think that we should have better done to have fun > with our little toys and sometimes I think that yes this could be true. But > we decided that it was more rewarding > to build real systems with customers that are not always happy, have bugs. So > when you have strong expectations, > bold statements about Pharo think also that this is the simple work of people > most of the time not payed to do it and that nicely > share it. > > We know where we want to go, sometimes the system does not get the shape we > want. but each little peebles after the other > one we shape it. Now you can also help to make it better. > > Stef > >
