Takes a while indeed.
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 9:53 AM, kilon <theki...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Yeah indeed that is worse. > > But I have to confese my experience with both smalltalk and lisp (common > lisp) has started with a "so what ?" experience. When I opened squeak , > the > IDE looked like any other ide I used, the guis was ugly, morph halos looked > kinda weird. I did not understan why all the ranting that everything is a > smalltalk object and of course we should not forget the usual "If your > language is all that great why people are not even aware of it". > > Especially the last one , I have been coding for fun for more than 24 years > now and never , absolutely never heard of smalltalk before. Actually the > reason I discovered smalltalk was because of lisper I was chating via irc 1 > + years ago. I was reading how awesome common lisp is , but of course I did > hate all that parentheses. However I did decide to give it a serious try , > but for me the barrier was emacs and text based interfaces, I was always a > fan of GUIs, so I was chating with him saying to him how I would love to do > live coding and visual coding and he replied "hey did you try squeak and > smalltalk ?" , I replied back "whats that ?" and the rest is history. > > So to be fair he did tell me what the big deal was so I knew when I tried > squeak that it was very special. Because if I have tried it by accident > most > likely I would have taken the same route as you and even never come back to > it. > > The problem with smalltalk and lisp is that it takes a lot of time to > realise the benefits of using such unpopular languages. Its difficult to > kick out the "whats the big deal ?" attitude. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/Pharo-dev-A-screenshot-we-should-remind-today-tp4690921p4691332.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > >
