fun and empowerment
Craig Latta
Craig.Latta at NetJam.ORG
Wed Jan 26 08:02:49 UTC 2000
> Experience has led me to the conviction that your average
> managerial-type -- certainly corporate, possibly even in
> research -- can not stomach the idea that engineers or
> programmers could be having FUN while working for them.
>
> I joke not. Smalltalk is one of the worst languages / environments
> in this respect, precisely because it can be so empowering. (This is
> more serious even than having fun, so to avoid the above mentioned
> tactical error, I won't go into it any further here.)
Hmm. I guess this means that more Squeakers ought to go into management (this is left as an exercise for the reader :).
-C
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Craig Latta
composer and computer scientist
craig.latta at netjam.org
www.netjam.org
Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)]
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