I am a big fan of proper attribution, so here is my guess.
It seems to be a paraphrase of an Alan Perlis quote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis
" A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is
not worth knowing."
From his article
Epigrams on Programming, 1982
ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), September 1982, pp. 7–13
Hope this helps someone.
Jimmie Houchin
On 10/23/2016 07:36 PM, Ben Coman wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Dimitris Chloupis
<kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
I was looking my entire life for something like Pharo , almost 30 years.
When I found it took me another 5 to realize this is it and I had many close
calls to abandoning it. But in the end I realized with its weakness and
frustrated moments I love Pharo.
To tell you truth even if I was to give up Pharo, today, it would not matter
much. Mainly because I can take the Pharo ideology to any other programming
language even the most ugly ones like Java, C++ and JavaScript.
I don't remember who said it, but I like the quote...
"The only languages worth learning are those that change the way you
think about programming"
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 at 01:52, Vitor Medina Cruz <vitormc...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I think what is missing is something before all that, something that spark
the "I am interested in Pharo", the STEP 0. What does that today? I think a
simple tutorial that catch the attention of people would do that. Right now
I think it is too hard for someone to get interested in Smalltalk in
general, and Pharo in particular, because something like that is missing,
and one must really understand and see the value of Smalltalk to persist and
keep going and learning, like happened to me.
Perhaps something like these?
*
https://medium.com/concerning-pharo/reddit-st-in-10-cool-pharo-classes-1b5327ca0740
*
https://medium.com/concerning-pharo/rediscovering-the-ux-of-the-legendary-hp-35-scientific-pocket-calculator-d1d497ece999
* https://medium.com/concerning-pharo/elegant-pharo-code-bb590f0856d0
If you do notice somewhere a suitable step 0, please let us know. For
those of us using Pharo a while, our perspective changes so maybe we
can't see what might hook newcomers. The things we see as important
might be a paradigm step too far for newcomers. Although those who
teach Pharo classes would have a better idea of a newcomer
perspective, may that is still different from someone voluntarily
choosing Pharo without a supportive environment like a university
course.
cheers -ben
