Thanks. This is the "human factors" engineering aspect, the "sales strategy" part of the technology -- which has its own set of interesting challenges... And is also very important to achieving success "in the marketplace" -- a marketplace of the mind, which is adoption and use (as opposed to actual retail sales).
I find these challenges interesting, and I can tell you're absorbed by it as well. It doesn't have the relatively 'clean' deductive solution in the way that engineering challenges like development of the Pharo language and environment have; it's not like "writing a program to solve the problem" (regardless of how hard that may be), because the problem is persuasion & motivation of other people. That's messy, imperfect, unpredictable, and subject to a variety of strategies -- some of which will fail one day and somehow inexplicably succeed the next. My strategy on this is simple: Associate Smalltalk with something already successful (or it the process of succeeding) in the marketplace. Better if it's something that is emerging unexpectedly, or "beating the odds" and the proving the "expert" commentators wrong. Even better if it's something that was a big deal in the past, but has been largely forgotten, but now coming "back in fashion". The parallels between the two technologies (and their timing) is almost uncanny... Looking forward to that sequel, Richard!! ;^) -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
