On 12 Feb 2014, at 14:54, askoh <as...@askoh.com> wrote: > The recent arguments in Smalltalk made me have an Eureka moment on why > Smalltalk is not popular. Smalltalk attracts brilliant people. But these > brilliant people scare others away. Instead of Showing How, they Show Off. > Instead of being inclusive, they are picky. Instead of discussing, they > fight. > > So, Smalltalkers, please be humble, friendly and pacific. Show How. Invite > anyone interested to join. And let's talk normally.
I agree, of course. (With the second paragraph, less with the first: these discussion happen everywhere, ever read emails by Linus Torvalds ?) -- But I had an epiphany today, based on this discussion of what is the definition of Smalltalk. I hereby declare that we are the _third_ most popular language (family) in use today ! Based on this very reputable (ahem) index: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html I really think that in a broad definition of Smalltalk, Objective-C is part of the family. According to the first line of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C Objective-C is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language. And messaging is at the core of Smalltalk. It also has a similar class based object model, is late bound in almost everything and has some reflective capabilities. There are even a couple of projects mixing the two explicitly. Reserve a bigger venue for the next ESUG ! Sven PS: We've had these discussions before on various occasions: it is really hard to come up with a definition of what is Smalltalk, or even a good list of what is so special about it - there really is a elusive, hard to define aspect to it. > All the best, > Aik-Siong Koh > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/Why-Smalltalk-is-not-popular-tp4743009.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
