On 17/01/12 09:43, Frank Shearar wrote:
I've been biting my tongue for a while now in this thread. Please
don't take this the wrong way, we're all interested in the same
wonderful language and environment, and so on.
Compulsory disclaimer: I love Smalltalk. I used to write it for a living
and those were wonderful times. I still keep half an eye on it at the
hobbyist level, and wish I could find a way to use it seriously again.
If Smalltalk and a puppy were drowning I wouldn't know which to save first.
But.
Yeah.
I've seen just about every time someone joins a Smalltalk community
and dares to suggest that they've had enjoyable experiences with FOO,
the Smalltalk community forms a laager (I think Americans would call
this "circle the wagons!"), with statements like "you lack
imagination" or "when you get it" or whatever.
For some strange reason - maybe a character defect - I seem always to
have got interested in things which have a bit of a marginal life -
Smalltalk, Macromedia Director, Blender...
One thing the user communities for these tools all have in common is
that they circle the wagons/man the barricades/whatever and defend their
chosen tools against any outside comparisons. It's understandable that
people defend what they love, but it's no way to grow.
[...] We should be HAPPY about this! We should
carefully examine new things, and learn new languages, so that we can
_pillage these ideas_.
+100
frank
Steve
