Posted by Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas-2 on Jan 07, 2017; 11:30pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Amazing-Grace-tp4929022p4929029.html

I agree: A man along can not, even if he's wearing several hats: president of the campaign, campaigner, advocate, funding department, founder. But actions like this can turn some eyes towards deeper experience way beyond advertising. It was not my case and I don't know how many start with a technology because they saw it on a advertising campaign. I remember thinking about what was the best context/technology to learn Python, beyond the classical and dumb "hello world" introductions and I found Leo Editor in Linux today or some news, so definitively having news spread helps, as a first step towards bridging newbies and communities, but I think that is once some signal is send the best is to have paths towards deeper engagement (instead of fighting popularity metrics or "someone wrong on the Internet").

About "making Smalltalk great again", I have been wondering: what "greatness" mean and what was lost that needs to be recovered. May be it was some sense of opportunity, the idea that Smalltalk can be useful in the wide world for children and adults in several contexts.

I think that a measure of a healthy community is in its diversity and the empowerment it provides to its members. In that sense, popularity is not the proper measure for greatness and the sense of opportunity is still there.

Cheers,

Offray

Ah ah, yeah.

Man alone can't but keep on trucking, any advertising is fine as people forget if it was good or bad, just that they were exposed to the product.

And engineering is making progress :-)

Phil

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 8:11 PM, horrido <[hidden email]> wrote:

I was totally surprised to see this today. It completely blows my mind! I
feel like I've won an Oscar.
http://thenewstack.io/can-man-spark-renaissance-smalltalk-programming-language/
<http://thenewstack.io/can-man-spark-renaissance-smalltalk-programming-language/>



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