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If you like Pharo Smalltalk, and it looks like you like it, you need to find your place in the Pharo ecosystem and see where you can add value to the ecosystem. You seem to like advocating, so please continue! This is marketing for Pharo for free, and it can just add visibility or attraction to Pharo, and hopefully help to grow the community. Just be sure to use the right arguments. You like to punch from time to time in the Pharo community, for me it is ok, after all we should have thick skin and strong arguments when using Pharo and not a main stream language About direction of the Pharo development, I guess you already know the free software golden rule expressed by L. Torvalds: "Talk is cheap. Show me the code." So without revealing your own code contribution, your preach on development orientation are useless and you should not waste your time there, or at least not too much. I am myself not always happy with Pharo direction, but as a minor contributor I don't fell legitimate to punch that much, and I adapt myself. Continue on advocating! You will have more fun there. You could write in detail about success stories with Pharo. What about starting with Dr. Geo (http://drgeo.eu) and writing an article about it, I need help to get visibility, especially I am not a native English speaker. Thanks Hilaire Le 13/12/2015 06:10, horrido a écrit : > Rather than view my posts as accusatory, you should view them as trying to > steer the collective thinking of a large group toward a more promising > direction...which is exactly what they are. My analysis of the situation is > objective, *not defamatory*. I see what's wrong with the status quo and I > look for possible solutions. > > It is precisely because of limited funding and influence that a group such > as yours should be more creative and openminded in how to advance the cause > of Smalltalk. For example, I have no resources whatsoever, but in my own > way, I've tried hard to advocate for Smalltalk using a marketing strategy. I > use whatever is available to me /for free/. I publish articles that are > sometimes controversial, but always thought-provoking. *They draw attention > to Smalltalk.* They spur debate. Ultimately, the goal is to get people to > /think/ about Smalltalk. Otherwise, it gets forgotten. Out of sight, out of > mind. > > Okay, it's good that Pharo is being taught in some schools. But how many > schools are there in the world, and how many are NOT teaching Pharo? Look at > the United States and Canada, for example. Despite the evangelizing efforts > so far, the needle hasn't moved for Smalltalk. At least, not in any way > measurable to the public. At some point, one has to ask, "is this working?", > and if not, "how can we do things differently?" Why are you afraid to ask > these questions? > > Smalltalk is not a religion. The goal is not to conquer all programmers, nor > all programming tasks. But increasing the breadth of applicability so that > Smalltalk benefits more of the IT world is surely a worthy ambition. *Right > now, it's barely a blip on the radar of most businesses.* That can't be a > satisfactory state of affairs. > > In terms of this discussion, yes, size is everything. Smalltalk's library > ecosystem is demonstrably weak. (I dare you to ask me to provide an > example.) Why is this okay? A strong ecosystem would make Smalltalk/Pharo > much more useful to many more people in the IT world. > > And how do you build a strong ecosystem? By growing the user community > sufficiently large. We've seen this scenario play out over and over and over > again...with Python...with Java...with JavaScript...with Scala...and soon > with Go. That's why popularity matters. > > Please, I'm not attacking anyone. I'm trying to change the direction of an > ocean liner because I believe it's not moving in the right direction. > Obviously, this is a monumental task. > > One last point: If Stephan's Wardley maps have been used by Pharo recently, > then I submit they haven't had the desired effects. Unless Pharo's status > quo *is* the desired outcome, in which case, I find that sad. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/PharoJVM-tp4866633p4866783.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- Dr. Geo http://drgeo.eu http://google.com/+DrgeoEu
