Am 14.02.2012 um 00:53 schrieb Shyam Sundaresan (Personal): > The veteran smalltalkers are so exacting in their standards that mediocre > "others" (the bulk of the average talent) get intimidated and feel "left > out". It is not problem of smalltalk, but good Smalltalkers do make that > pedantic impression.
I don't think so. According to my experience, the opposite is true. New talents are rather fascinated and attracted by the religious attitudes of the Smalltalk community. I still have no problems getting the full attention of any non-Smalltalker within minutes. Their major concern is they can't see how to accomplish with Smalltalk the things they want to do today. Smalltalk has become a business, services and datbase focussed platform with a legacy touch, that can not compete with state-of-the-art desktop and mobile applications anymore. It still has its place in the backend market, but that is a rather hidden place. I have no doubt that, if Smalltalk was put side by side with Ruby and Java on the XCode platform, it would succeed in the long term. Andre _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
