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

We can't ignore evidence about people and corporations that
 tried to spread horizontally Smalltalk and failed
 during the last +30years.
It is not the same as in "programming languages".

It is a good time to start thinking in what make Smalltalk
 diferent.

Each time we make efforts to disolve peculiarities
 of Smalltalk, people choose for massive options.

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"I always thought Smalltalk would beat Java,
 I just didn't know it would be
   called 'Ruby' when it did."
   (Kent Beck)

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I have read this email in a local list about Ruby.
It can be a joke... or also can be that
 Kent has not understood what Smalltalk
 was and what Smalltalk is today.

all the best,
Ale.








----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Serge Stinckwich" <Serge.Stinckwich at gmail.com>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 10:32 AM
Subject: [squeak-dev] Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] Vote for the best 
Smalltalk book of the last 5 years...


> 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,
>
>
> -- 
> Serge Stinckwich
> UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam
> Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk
> http://doesnotunderstand.org/
>
>
>
>