Promoting Squeak/Smalltalk

David Zmick dz0004455 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 29 23:44:56 UTC 2008


loss of the community the way it is now, with a mailing list like this, my
inbox is overwhelming, and i cant imagine it even more messages

On Jan 29, 2008 5:42 PM, Joshua Gargus <schwa at fastmail.us> wrote:

> The benefits of popularity seem clear.  There would be more smart
> people with more spare time to contribute good ideas and code.  There
> would be more jobs and a better chance of making a living using the
> language.  The second benefit would feed into the first, and vice-versa.
>
> The question is whether the benefits outweigh the costs.  Since the
> benefits seem obvious to me, I'll assume that you're really expressing
> skepticism about whether the benefits outweigh the costs.  What do you
> think the costs are? (I can think of a few, but I'm curious about what
> others think)
>
> Josh
>
>
> On Jan 29, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Colin Putney wrote:
>
> >
> > On 29-Jan-08, at 2:45 PM, David Zmick wrote:
> >
> >> I might be completely wrong, but that is what i have seen, but, i
> >> have only really payed attention for a couple of months, and i
> >> think it would be good to see some growth in smalltalk's
> >> popularity. :)
> >
> > Why would it be good if Smalltalk were more popular?
> >
> > Colin
> >
>
>
>
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