On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was looking my entire life for something like Pharo , almost 30 years. > When I found it took me another 5 to realize this is it and I had many close > calls to abandoning it. But in the end I realized with its weakness and > frustrated moments I love Pharo. > > To tell you truth even if I was to give up Pharo, today, it would not matter > much. Mainly because I can take the Pharo ideology to any other programming > language even the most ugly ones like Java, C++ and JavaScript.
I don't remember who said it, but I like the quote... "The only languages worth learning are those that change the way you think about programming" > On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 at 01:52, Vitor Medina Cruz <vitormc...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> I think what is missing is something before all that, something that spark >> the "I am interested in Pharo", the STEP 0. What does that today? I think a >> simple tutorial that catch the attention of people would do that. Right now >> I think it is too hard for someone to get interested in Smalltalk in >> general, and Pharo in particular, because something like that is missing, >> and one must really understand and see the value of Smalltalk to persist and >> keep going and learning, like happened to me. Perhaps something like these? * https://medium.com/concerning-pharo/reddit-st-in-10-cool-pharo-classes-1b5327ca0740 * https://medium.com/concerning-pharo/rediscovering-the-ux-of-the-legendary-hp-35-scientific-pocket-calculator-d1d497ece999 * https://medium.com/concerning-pharo/elegant-pharo-code-bb590f0856d0 If you do notice somewhere a suitable step 0, please let us know. For those of us using Pharo a while, our perspective changes so maybe we can't see what might hook newcomers. The things we see as important might be a paradigm step too far for newcomers. Although those who teach Pharo classes would have a better idea of a newcomer perspective, may that is still different from someone voluntarily choosing Pharo without a supportive environment like a university course. cheers -ben
