[squeak-dev] Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] Vote for the best Smalltalk book of the last 5 years...

Serge Stinckwich Serge.Stinckwich at gmail.com
Tue Sep 7 13:32:46 UTC 2010


On 07/09/10 18:17, Stéphane Rollandin wrote:
>> I think we need more translations also !
>>
>> What is the community thinking about that ?
>
> IMHO, considering how close is reading and writing Smalltalk code to
> reading and writing English text, I don't see how translating books will
> be enough to spread Smalltalk in the world: one has to read english to
> make sense of most methods usage... I believe Smalltalk is doomed to be
> a programming language for English speakers; that's unfortunate but I
> don't see a way out of that situation.

This is not specific to Smalltalk. The problem is the same with every 
programming language.

Regards,


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Serge Stinckwich
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