Posted by csrabak on Dec 07, 2010; 1:43am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Pharo-integration-in-enterprise-feedback-tp3059564p3075662.html

Em 06/12/2010 18:21, Tudor Girba < [hidden email] > escreveu:

> Hi,
>  I believe Smalltalk is perceived in the following way:
> 1. Smalltalk is cool: 0.01%
> 2. What is Smalltalk?: 19,99%
> 3. Smalltalk is dead: 80%

I think your assessment is not that far from reality... :-(

> It  is hard  to  convince the  2nd  category to  look at  something
> new.  Why should  they? But,  if it's  hard to  convince  someone of
> something new, you need a miracle to convince someone that something
> is  not  dead.  But,  I  think  that a  miracle  like  this  can  be
> administrated in  the form  of cool and  kicking creatures  and then
> tell them that they kick because of Smalltalk :)

I agree on the feeling, I only think we all miss a very important
tactical point here: in what realm is Smalltalk superior to other
technologies?  While we cannot answer this without hesitation and
without half escuses on why this 'superiority' don't show itself,
we're stuck to feelings and trying to present cherry picked 'examples'
of the qualities of our pet language/technology.

The issue some cool and kicking creatures could have been done is not
enough, we need also to be certain we can get newcomers and have them
quickly up to speed in doing so. _That_ has lead other ('younger')
languages to their present status.

--
Cesar Rabak