On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < [email protected]> wrote:
> HI all, > > I was making a talk here in Colombia trying to invite people to conform a > Smalltalk study group. I was showing them Pier and Seaside as "selling > points" for making a project and there is some initial interest. The typical > questions about: > > * If Smalltalk is so good, why is not widely known ? > Half serious / half jookes - Marketing - It was expensive -> none (or few?) open-source dialect existed when Java arrived. - Something that is easy and simple is difficult to sell. Companies are stupid. They buy complexity. - Because doing Smalltalk is a letal weapon for a company. Imagine you have a super secret tool that makes a big difference with your competirors, would you tell it to your competiros? - Smalltalkers used to be quite close people and nobody likes to document -> Smalltalk has few documentation in comparison to other languages. - Smalltalk is too different from all the rest of the languages. - Companies are afraid of using Smalltalk because nobody use it -> endess loop. - Because few universities teach Smalltalk now. - Because it is difficult to find Smalltalkers, hence companies don't want to buy a proyect where they cannot find people to maintain it after. * Which famous/big project is made with Smalltalk ? > - JP Morgan - Telecom - AMD - Banks - Medical stuff - Military http://www.goodstart.com/who-uses-smalltalk.ssp http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Smaltalk/Companies > where in place. I think that Pier, Seaside, Etoys, Scratch, DrGeo, Croquet, > - Moose, Magma, Gemstone > are really good projects to motivate people towards learning Smmalltalk, > but they're kind of "niche" projects (I have no problem with that), but > searching for information about who to solve these questions I found this > talk on ESUG 2009: > > http://www.esug.org/**Conferences/2009/Current+List+** > of+Talks/Smalltalk%27s+Image+**Problem<http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2009/Current+List+of+Talks/Smalltalk%27s+Image+Problem> > > So I wonder if anyone has the memories/slides of this talk and, of course, > what community thinks about these questions. > > Thanks, > > Offray > > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
