[Seaside] Great Quote

[Bill Holloway]

I also showed her a little Java. I was looking at SpringMVC and was working 
on a simple controller to setup a form to enter two input fields for a 
"Person" object. She got lost pretty quick in all the damn syntax like

Person p = (Person) people.get(0);
Map myModel = new HashMap();

She didn't fully grasp the following Seaside code either but quickly got the 
"sense" of it:

html textInputOn: #firstName of: person.
 
On 6/16/05, goran at krampe.se <goran at krampe.se> wrote:
> 
> Bill Holloway <bill.holloway at gmail.com> wrote:
> > "I'm liking this Smalltalk thing."
> 
> He, he a great quote indeed. :) Seriously.
> 
> The way she formulates it shows she knows very little of it (""this
> Smalltalk thing") but she already likes it (which implies she must
> already have produced *some* kind of result - people don't tend to like
> things before they do) and already feels like saying it (which implies
> she feels that she has some kind of grasp of it - people typically don't
> make judgements if they suspect there are unknown bad things down the
> road).
> 
> Well, that was a super-silly analysis of a single sentence. :) But it
> mirrors my experience when using Smalltalk to teach OO.
> 
> regards, Göran
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