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This author "Richard Kenneth Eng" has done more damage than good to Smalltalk by his fanboy posts for the past few years.
by gjvc 4y ago
This author "Richard Kenneth Eng" has done more damage than good to Smalltalk by his fanboy posts for the past few years.
- Qem 4y agoTo his credit, I think I first heard about Pharo, and got my foot in the doorway to the Smalltalk world thanks to one of his posts. People mock languages that have lots of newbies asking stupid questions in the Internet, but in the end of the day, given programmers are mortal, if your favorite language has a noob to guru ratio smaller than one, that means it is stale, dead or dying. Even in this thread there's people claiming they never heard about Smalltalk before. For me that means that evangelism efforts like Richard's could benefit the Smalltalk community a lot. There's a lack of awareness in the broader programming community about it, and that's unfortunate.
- sebastianconcpt 4y agonoob to guru ratio smaller than one That was a heavy one. Good point. Worth writing an essay or blog post elaborating on that.
- sebastianconcpt 4y agoSince he speaks as positively about Smalltalk than about the Chinese Communist Party I'd indeed question that. But it might be better than just silence.