Sorry Stef it will never happen. The issue here is not that Pharo is Smalltalk , the problem here is that you promote something that is too good to be true.
Coders live in a denial state for decades now . The denial is about not wanting to recognize that even my hardware is 10000 times better in processing power and more than 50000 better in storage , the software is barely 10 times better than my first computer 30 years ago. Software is anchored in Stone Age for decades now and is not even a secret. This was one of the big reasons I decided to not become a pro coder and this is decades before being introduced to lisp and Smalltalk. The success of Pharo depends on people being open minded scientists but coding is nothing more than a closed minded religion masquareding as a science. Web developers being the worst, especially web dev bloggers. There is a reason why every single well designed software is highly unpopular. Fortunately there are exceptions like Pharo that have reignited my hope in investing in professional coding. Most of all open source have made it easy for that software to reach a bigger crowd. This is enough for me not to care. People were laughing at my face when I was saying that Blender will become one of the top three 3D apps , something unheard of for open source a decade ago. People were laughing at my face when iPad was released when I said that it will be a tool used by professional that will replace laptops . People were laughing at my face when Apple announced that it would no longer support flash and I said that this marked the end of flash . And so on. So I now code and mind my own business and keep my ideas to myself most of the time. Unless of course I find some open minds. People love progress but they hate change And I am no exception to this rule either, sad but true The good news is that things still do improve in the end, slowly but steadily. So yes this something worth fighting for. On Sun, 1 Jan 2017 at 18:28, stepharong <stephar...@free.fr> wrote: > Since people believe that new equals better, we market Pharo as new. > > And Pharo is new and it will continue to improve so this is not even a lie > > :) > > > > There is a reason why we decided to go that road and avoid to always say > > to people that we use a language > > designed nearly 40 years ago. > > > > But you can try :) > > > > Stef > > > > > > > > On Sun, 01 Jan 2017 14:05:12 +0100, horrido <horrido.hobb...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Wow! *In just one day*, the Slashdot story added another thousand > > > pageviews > > > to my TechBeacon article! > > > > > > However, if you look at the comments, there's an awful lot of disdain for > > > Smalltalk. It appears that Slashdot is inhabited by a lot of ignorant and > > > opinionated programmers. I did not realize this. > > > > > > I'm trying to respond to the negative comments, but it's getting > > > overwhelming... > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > View this message in context: > > > http://forum.world.st/Slashdot-Submission-tp4928235p4928493.html > > > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > > > > > -- > > Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > > > >
