Am 28.04.2014 um 18:58 schrieb kilon alios <kilon.al...@gmail.com>: > very cool presentation. Definitely you need to add this to the new website. > > Question : Why in every presentation we have to apologise why smalltalk is > dead / extinct ? > > As a newcomer to Smalltalk I find it quite annoying. Its not as if I came to > Smalltalk without knowing that is not popular. The vast majority of languages > out there are so more unpopular than Smalltalk, yet they don't have this > "sorry that I am dead" mentality to them. > +1
Well said. Norbert > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr> wrote: > … more a Smalltalk one using Pharo: > > MountainWest RubyConf 2014 > > Noel Rappin: "But Really, You Should Learn Smalltalk” > > Smalltalk has mystique. We talk about it more than we use it. It seems like > it should be so similar to Ruby. It has similar Object-Oriented structures, > it even has blocks. But everything is so slightly different, from the > programming environment, to the 1-based arrays, to the simple syntax. Using > Smalltalk will make you look at familiar constructs with new eyes. We’ll show > you how to get started on Smalltalk, and walk through some sample code. Live > coding may be involved. You’ll never look at objects the same way again. > > > http://www.confreaks.com/videos/3284-mwrc-but-really-you-should-learn-smalltalk >
