I do agree, that nomads do not build cathedrals but there is the flip side of the coin, why one would want to be a nomad and the great benefits coming with being a nomad
Guido the creator of python explains it from the side of the Python Standard library but I think it applies fine for Pharo too http://youtu.be/EBRMq2Ioxsc?t=49m4s he makes the point at 49th minute for a couple of minutes. Especially if the subject of your coding is quite unconventional putting it inside a standard distribution can be a huge wast of time that not only can offer limited benefits but even decrease the quality of the code substantially. Afterall the most beautiful things in life are not big at all ;) But yes I agree that being teamplayer is extremely important too. The balance is somewhere in between and I am a big supporter of what you trying to do with making pharo more modular. Thanks for the slides. I am using Pharo for a couple of years and I am amazed how far it has come , keep up the great work. On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr> wrote: > > > On 02 Feb 2015, at 21:19, Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Here are the slides from my talk from yesterday: > > > > http://www.slideshare.net/MarcusDenker/2015-fosdempharo > > > > The part in between Pharo3 and Pharo4 tries a bit to explain the > philosophy… I did a longer > talk at ESUG last year about that: > > Nomads do not build Cathedrals > http://www.slideshare.net/MarcusDenker/2014-esugcathedral > > The video of that is online: > > Video Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcoy5gwUvOA > Video Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LrH9r4FNzY > > In the spirit of the talk, I should do a pass over it and make a version 2… > > e.g. one book that was very influential to my thinking was > Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse: > > http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/000434 > > To me a software system should always be thought as an “infinite game”… > > Marcus >
