Thanks. I gave your answer verbatim. I also added the following paragraph: The problem I find with today’s developers is that they are rather closed-minded. They are rigid and inflexible, and not willing to adapt to new and different ways of doing things. In my generation (circa 1980–1990), people didn’t have a problem with trying different technologies. That’s why I had no issue with learning Smalltalk 10 years ago, after I had retired from a 20-year-long career in C systems programming and FORTRAN scientific programming.
Sven Van Caekenberghe-2 wrote >> On 6 Oct 2017, at 14:54, horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: >> >> I received this comment from someone who complained: >> >> *What about the lack of documentation? From time to time I’ve checked >> some >> SmallTalk implementations like Squeak, GNU-Smalltalk and now Pharo. Of >> these, only GNU-SmallTalk appears to have a free, official programming >> guide >> and core library reference that any serious programmer expects from a >> language. >> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual-base/html_node/* >> >> I pointed to Pharo's documentation but then he came back with: >> >> *Then show me a link of the free, maintained reference documentation for >> the >> classes that form “the core library”, like this one for Python >> (https://docs.python.org/3/library/index.html)* >> >> It's true, most Smalltalks do not have a core library reference, not even >> VisualWorks! So what is the proper response to this complaint? > > The first answer is that Pharo/Smalltalk is unique in that a running > system/IDE contains _all_ source code, _all_ documentation (class, method, > help, tutorial), _all_ unit tests and _all_ runnable examples in a very > easy, accessible way. It takes some getting used to, but this is actually > better and much more powerful than any alternative. > > The second answer is that there are lots of books and articles that take > the classic/structured book/paper approach. There is > http://books.pharo.org, http://themoosebook.org, > http://book.seaside.st/book, http://medium.com/concerning-pharo and many > more. > >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> -- >> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html >> -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
