I'm not talking about advocacy :). And Pharo is for growing business but also in a community manner because all together sharing code we get stronger. I wish you a lot of business.
Hi Stef,
good point - the days when I was into Smalltalk advocacy seem to be long gone. Point taken ;-) Like yours, my day has roughly about 24 hours and I am trying to build and run a business and a family. A few years ago, it was way easier for me to blog and podcast and stuff. Smalltalk advocacy is not on my agenda very often these days - I hope I can improve on that.
+1 on Sven's excellent work, both in code and documentation as well as his helpfulness on all forums.
Joachim
Am 09.07.18 um 21:49 schrieb Stéphane Ducasse:
So what do you do to improve the situation of our community? I mean do you think documentation autowrite itself? Did you write something that others can use?
You see from time to time I would love to read docs that I did not write. If people would follow sven excellent practices our framework would be a lot better documented.
Stef
On 6 Jul 2018, at 15:36, jtuchel@objektfabrik.de <mailto:jtuchel@objektfabrik.de> wrote:
I am not actually a Smalltalk newbie, but still find it sometomes hard to get into areas I've never touched before. For some stuff that was related mostly to problems with encoding and decoding between utf-8 and utf-85 on both Windows and Linux and strange differences between these platforms, I thought I'd use something that peopl "out there" use daily.
I chose python. I had never written anything in Python before, but it was easy to stipple together a few working programs. It took me just a few hours to find out about Skyper and some important language constructs and stuff. It was a pleasant journey for two reasons:
No need to learn any tools. Just an editor and a command line and you're on yur journey You find lots of documentation and examples on the web. It feels like VB in the days: type a few keywords into your web browser and copy the sources for a 70% solution of your problem Back when I was young and cared for whether my preferred language was popular or not, I would be depressed by the experience. Remember, I tried Python because things were hard in Smalltalk.
So spot the message here... ;-)
Joachim
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