+1

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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> On 30.06.2009, at 04:23, Ramon Leon wrote:
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>> How about the part where Smalltalk gets enough mainstream acceptance
>> that it's used as much as Python or Ruby and thousands of developers
>> are writing libraries for it instead of a small handful?  How about
>> enough that when you tell someone you're using Smalltalk that they've
>> actually have heard of it and know what you're talking about?  Let's
>> not act like there isn't room for improvement and that we wouldn't
>> benefit from a larger community of fresh blood to take the place of
>> the old gray bearded Smalltalker's before they all die.
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> How about getting them young, when the kids are not yet brain-washed
> into how a "proper" edit-compile-run-crash development environment
> looks like? Say, by making a cool shiny toy environment that lets them
> start to play, and once they reach its limits, show them how to open
> the hood and program actual Smalltalk? That toy environment could
> initially be developed by a handful of engineers, but it would need a
> whole community to keep it up-to-date and make it truly useful for
> "grownup" tasks too. Now there's an idea ...
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> - Bert -
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