I can see that now that youve mentioned it - but that's not the context in which I answered it.
There are many futures being pursued. Some will pan out - some won't. I can't really tell what will. I could go down the laundry list of nifty efforts that will benefit me most - like exupery, seaside, pier/magritte, better networking, traits... but you know these as well as I do. Plus there are a number of pain points around code management/modularity that could use attention. The key is to stay alert and look for opportunities.
On Feb 21, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
Todd Blanchard wrote:
The question was - What do you believe is the future of Smalltalk? My answer was from a social/market/adoption perspective - you seem to have taken it from a technical roadmap perspective.
To be blunt, I have imagined you giving a talk at O'Reilly and being asked by the audience "So what is the future of Squeak and Smalltalk?". And I was cringing reading that response in the face of twenty years of blatant stagnation of Smalltalk compared to almost daily visible progress in other (both mainstream and not) languages.
Cheers,
- Andreas