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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 29, 2008 5:42 PM, Joshua Gargus <<a href="mailto:schwa@fastmail.us">schwa@fastmail.us</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The benefits of popularity seem clear. There would be more smart<br>people with more spare time to contribute good ideas and code. There<br>
would be more jobs and a better chance of making a living using the<br>language. The second benefit would feed into the first, and vice-versa.<br><br>The question is whether the benefits outweigh the costs. Since the<br>
benefits seem obvious to me, I'll assume that you're really expressing<br>skepticism about whether the benefits outweigh the costs. What do you<br>think the costs are? (I can think of a few, but I'm curious about what<br>
others think)<br><br>Josh<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>On Jan 29, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Colin Putney wrote:<br><br>><br>> On 29-Jan-08, at 2:45 PM, David Zmick wrote:<br>><br>>> I might be completely wrong, but that is what i have seen, but, i<br>
>> have only really payed attention for a couple of months, and i<br>>> think it would be good to see some growth in smalltalk's<br>>> popularity. :)<br>><br>> Why would it be good if Smalltalk were more popular?<br>
><br>> Colin<br>><br><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>