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
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