louiscyphre

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by louiscyphre 7y ago
> No dissection of existing approaches to programming language evangelisation; no analyses of successful approaches and lessons drawn from those with lesser success; no examination of the correlation between a programming language's
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by louiscyphre 7y ago
> The competition isn't even really discussed, how well it did, how many participants it drew, what came out of it. I took the article as an invitation to dig deeper into the competition (follow the links). So I did. Here's wha
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by louiscyphre 7y ago
Here are some good resources: https://smalltalk.tech.blog/resources/ . It's a curated list.
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by louiscyphre 7y ago
> What do you use the Smalltalk system for ? Very few have an answer. I have... You use Smalltalk for back-end web development with tools like Seaside ( http://seaside.st/ ) and Teapot. You use Smalltalk for front-end we
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by louiscyphre 7y ago
> This article has only one real tip: create a high school programming contest for it. Yes, but this "tip" was demonstrated by an example. The example is a Pharo-based programming competition, so it's reasonable to say a f
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by louiscyphre 7y ago
PHP was in the right place at the right time back in the mid-1990s. It exploited the nascent web and gained a first-starter advantage. In other words, PHP lucked out. Most languages need some luck to make it to the top. JavaScript lucked ou
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How to Evangelize a Programming Language(levelup.gitconnected.com)
37 points by louiscyphre 7y ago|52 comments
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Covid-19 and Jrmpc(medium.com)
2 points by louiscyphre 7y ago|0 comments
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by louiscyphre 7y ago
If you do a sweeping Google search, you will find many Smalltalk posts "from the trenches" over the years. However, they've done little to elevate the language. I disagree that this is the best way to market a programming lan
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by louiscyphre 7y ago
How well does one need to know Smalltalk before they can promote it? I'm a Smalltalk newbie; I've only been using Smalltalk on and off for the past few years. But I absolutely love it! So I'm telling all my friends and collea
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by louiscyphre 7y ago
If I'm not mistaken, he created the following blog: https://smalltalk.tech.blog/ . It contains "solid" articles from Leandro Caniglia and Lorenzo Schiavina. It also contains an article about his recent program
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by louiscyphre 7y ago
> the one productivity study which is by now decades old This study was published within the last decade (2017): https://www.ifpug.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IYSM.-Thirt... . It contains data for l
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by louiscyphre 7y ago
The following tutorial can be finished within 15 minutes: https://amber-lang.net/learn.html . Thereafter, you will know the entire syntax of Smalltalk-80. Is there a Python tutorial where you can learn all of Python's s
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by louiscyphre 7y ago
Indeed, you can. The first thing to learn here is that the hash (#) signifies a literal symbol. So, #a is a symbol, whereas 'a' is a string (of length 1 and containing the character $a). The second thing to learn is that the dolla
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Smalltalk: An Entrepreneur's Secret Weapon(medium.com)
3 points by louiscyphre 7y ago|12 comments
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How is Smalltalk’s revival like the e-car’s revival?(levelup.gitconnected.com)
2 points by louiscyphre 7y ago|0 comments
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Why Smalltalk is so easy to evangelize(itnext.io)
3 points by louiscyphre 7y ago|0 comments
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It's Not Your Grandfather's Programming Language(jrmpc.ca)
5 points by louiscyphre 7y ago|0 comments
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by louiscyphre 7y ago
Still, I don't like web development. I used Python/Django and Pharo/Teapot, and they were okay, but I would rather do any other kind of programming.
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by louiscyphre 7y ago
Well, the three different things comprise one tool. ;-)
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A Look Ahead to Programming Languages in 2020(hackernoon.com)
2 points by louiscyphre 7y ago|0 comments
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How can we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Smalltalk?(medium.com)
1 points by louiscyphre 7y ago|0 comments
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Programming Languages of the Future(itnext.io)
2 points by louiscyphre 7y ago|0 comments
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The Tyranny of Web Development(linkedin.com)
11 points by louiscyphre 7y ago|4 comments
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by louiscyphre 7y ago
Well, this article is simply an explanation for why he's an evangelist, sort of a stream of consciousness thing. If you follow his blog, you will find hundreds of informative posts about how and why Smalltalk is so remarkable in terms
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Is Smalltalk a weird cause to fight for?(medium.com)
8 points by louiscyphre 7y ago|21 comments
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Just how English-like is Python?(medium.com)
1 points by louiscyphre 7y ago|0 comments
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Programming Language Tension(quora.com)
1 points by louiscyphre 7y ago|0 comments
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A Christmas Card(jrmpc.ca)
3 points by louiscyphre 7y ago|0 comments
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Data Visualization in Pharo(jrmpc.ca)
3 points by louiscyphre 7y ago|0 comments

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