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Sorry, my point was not to get into a popularity pissing match. I do believe popularity and quality are largely unrelated. What I meant is, since most people h
by skrishnamurthi 13y ago
Sorry, my point was not to get into a popularity pissing match. I do believe popularity and quality are largely unrelated.
What I meant is, since most people have stopped teaching with Smalltalk, it's really hard to do the kind of research I'm talking about! We had no trouble doing it for Racket because we were able to get lots of data and from it measure for statistical significance.
- e12e 13y agoNo worries, I understood that. I just thought you were in a great position to actually preform such a study, if you were willing to run it on a group of students :-) I can certainly understand why you wouldn't "just try Smalltalk on a class or two", though!
- skrishnamurthi 13y agoYep, that's just not feasible. It would require me to first master Smalltalk, then find suitable textbook material, figure out how to adapt it to the material I'm teaching, etc. (Eg, where are the really good intermediate-level algorithms textbooks for Smalltalk?) The list goes on. So it's really just not feasible at all.