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Well, I DID live through that era and I AM the 'old-man-yelling-at-clouds' ;-) and the main issue was that getting Smalltalk developers was a HUGE headache. I w
by mwnorman2 9mo ago
Well, I DID live through that era and I AM the 'old-man-yelling-at-clouds' ;-)
and the main issue was that getting Smalltalk developers was a HUGE headache.
I worked for a Telecom company (Canada's largest, rhymes with 'Ortel') and we needed to
develop our own courses - yours truly developed and delivered dozens of hours of training.
This lead to some extraordinary per-diem charges that I knew some folks enjoyed for a
while, mostly paid for by the Financial industry. Eventually those on the paying side looked
for cheaper alternatives .. and yes, the new-kid-on-the-block Java played a big role,
but so did Visual Basic!
- igouy 9mo ago'We read and heard many stories about confident and experienced programmers plunging into self-study tutorials, only to give up in frustration after several hours, still wondering, "Where is the application code?" The object paradigm, in which program control is distributed across a set of tightly encapsulated and high-function software objects, was alien to experts in procedural design. … to use Smalltalk fluently, a programmer must become familiar with a huge class hierarchy and with the tools of a sophisticated interactive programming environment. New programmers often became lost in the hierarchy or spent considerable time in unfocused exploration of the interactive tools.' "Making Use: scenario-based design of human-computer interactions", 2000, page 103 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Making_Use/s-0ZuadhBBAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=making+use+smalltalk&pg=PA110&printsec=frontcover https://www.google.com/books/edition/Making_Use/s-0ZuadhBBAC...