Posted by Stéphane Rollandin on Jun 29, 2009; 7:51pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Usability-and-look-and-feel-was-Re-squeak-dev-The-future-of-Squeak-Pharo-was-Re-Pharo-project-ANN-Ph-tp81502p81551.html

>> Or, at the contrary: let them experience a big shock that wipes out their
>> preconceived ideas about programming. Trying to help them avoid that shock
>> may actually make thing more difficult for them in the long term. They have
>> to grok that Smalltalk *is* different.
>
> 30 years of big shock have proved not to work.
> Thank you for trying, come back in your next life.

Death is the ultimate big shock, indeed.

Stef