We have too many Bill Gates’s and too few Steve Jobs’s. ‘uglification of the world - it’s a universal trend’ (Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984). Smalltalk community suffers from too few people in general. For every 10000 ‘ok’ worker you need one genius visionary to turn things upside down. It’s always going to be a struggle.
Feeling like being philosophical this morning... > On May 10, 2019, at 06:31, Richard Kenneth Eng <[email protected]> > wrote: > > So say many visitors to https://amber-lang.net/learn.html. > > The problem is this: visitors are failing to read and comprehend the last > instruction on the first page of the tutorial. The one that reads: Select the > text below and click on the 'DoIt' button. > > They're not selecting the text. They do not understand what is meant by > "select the text below." > > So they immediately encounter a parse error and conclude that the tutorial is > broken. This is a horrible, horrible first impression for Smalltalk. > > It's not a rare occurrence, either. I've received this complaint numerous > times on Quora and Medium. > > So the question is: How to fix this? How to avoid this PR nightmare?
