Python has some books with animals on the cover. In the good old days, this mattered :-)
Phil On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > bingo !!! > +1.000.000.000 > > The problem is that there is so much hype about marketing thats easy to > miss the enormous fact that languages like C, C++, Java and Python are not > as popular as they are even with their big flaws without substance , > without solving some serious problem that requires serious resources . > Foremosts those languages have been evolving for decades , take Python > > and I am NOT talking the language itself I am talking the most popular > python implementation and the oldest , CPython, its 24 years. > > Let me repeat this... > > CPython IS 24 years OLD !!!! > > There is none smalltalk implementation that I am aware of that has been > actively developed for so long even though smalltalk as a language is far > older than that. > > Now imagine where Pharo will be in 24 years.... wow.... it blows my mind > just trying to imagine. > > And by the way Python had ZERO marketing , ZERO!!!! Zero funds, zero .... > no money.... nada..... nothing > > Just one dude working his ass off to make a great language for scripting C > projects. > > So in the end its all hard work, as it should be . > > So back to work improving Pharo :) > > On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 12:17 PM stepharo <steph...@free.fr> wrote: > >> why don't you spend the time to write such mails into >> - writing tutorial or >> - just improving class comments of the well-known classs (such as >> set, dictionary, booleans, strings), >> - create videos >> you would have already an impact. >> Now you are shouting in the desert and people will just put you on their >> black list. >> >> Stef >> >> >>
