I agree fully with all of what Ben said,
but I would like to say a last word before stopping me too, because
that bother me and very probably other people.
I thought about that thread in the train this morning, I was reading
charlie hebdo "message de Cabu: allez les gars ne vous laissez pas
abattre" bad translation: "come on guys dont let yourself be down (shot
down in french)" Cabu was one of the charlie hebo magazine guys shot
last week and very well known and loved in france.
the epitaph was : "rions aux larmes" (let's laught to tears")
That was really hard.
Here I couldn't laugh at all even if I like to joke about everything
(me, my bike, my code, things I like, the awkward and stupid the more I
like - people do not always appreciate, they think I'm stupid and I am,
so it's ok)
I hate people who think they have rights over others.
In the past I talked to several much older people (all dead now) whose
lives where completely broken by war.
That you are WWII buff is fine for you if you like that, for me I don't,
even if my son liked to play war with soldiers figurines when he was 8
and I liked to played with him. He grew up, I did too (....... not
completely sure for that one :) ),
these are things I hate and I will allways be against.
I will *never* rally up with a "blitzkrieg smalltalk" or "horiirod" or
"generalisimo" whatever ...
Even if I love smalltalk.
As a PR campain Richard, this is upmost too bad taste for me.
On the other hand, I think a carefully driven PR campaign could be good
a thing, and it's great to see involved people, you worked hard on that.
We could also talk of lot interesting things related to software evolution.
For example that :
- dinausors died because they where not agile enough to handle
meteorits, should they have learned scrum in order to diversify ? :)
- the graal quest seems to have failed in life, and in software too ?
- smalltalk is mostly about implementing and refactoring living systems ?
there are very actual great examples of that in software .
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Regards,
Alain
