Stéphane Rollandin a écrit :
> Brad Fuller wrote:
>>  Thus, it
>> arises that on every opportunity for attacking the reformer, his
>> opponents do so with the zeal of partisans, the others only defend him
>> half-heartedly, so that between them he runs great danger."
>>
>> 1513 AD Machiavelli
> 
> this is very true of any truggle for power, like in politics, economy, 
> and war.
> 
> but I fail to see any need for such struggle in computer science. Squeak 
> is an open source project and as such does not have to fight anything. 
> if we just make it as good as we can, according to our own elitist and 
> knowledgeable idea of "good", then that is enough.
> 
> I do not see the point in having anyone to convince, nor any fight to 
> figh, nor any product to sell. let's just be free of struggle, 
> intelligent and creative. let's just build a beautiful piece of 
> software, end even if it takes 50 years for its quality to be somewhat 
> largely recognized (as it happens to Lisp nowadays), well what is the 
> problem ?
> 
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> Stef
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The problem is for the poor guy that get paid for doing C++ or java or 
the like, dreaming that he could get paid the same for doing the job in 
Smalltalk...

For sure he has to convince he could work more or getting paid less... 
Bad news that he has to wait 50 years long...

Nicolas