I'm not sure whose feedback I should regard as wisdom. This uncertainty stems from a key philosophical difference I had 5 years ago. Read Interview with a Smalltalk Evangelist <https://medium.com/@richardeng/interview-with-a-smalltalk-evangelist-711e3f18b835> .
At the time, I don't think anybody agreed with me philosophically. I imagine most of you /still/ don't agree with me. So given this disagreement, how can I regard any feedback as wisdom? > but given your recent questions in the list, you don't today. You are correct, I'm no longer much of a programmer today. I retired many years ago and I've grown rusty. Nevertheless, my background qualifies me to evangelize a programming language at an overview level. I may not be able to evangelize at a technical code level, but at a conceptual level, I certainly can. Esteban A. Maringolo wrote > On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 4:48 PM horrido < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: >> >> I learned a long time ago that you can't please everybody. I've heard the >> critics about my evangelism. I've also heard the praise. >> >> So what am I supposed to do? Listen to the critics and ignore the fans? > > tr;dr answer: know who you listen to. > > But if you've been for a while (it is, years) here in this tiny tribe > (in global scale) that is the Smalltalk community, you'd pay attention > to the critics from many whose feedback can be treated as wisdom. > > In particular when you're promoting something that you might have > mastered in the past, but given your recent questions in the list, you > don't today. > > Smalltalk as a concept lacks a good PR these days, so does Pharo as a > product (although non-commercial), but Pharo has been successful in > growing organically and create some kind of grassroots, albeit slow. > > And in technical environments bad PR is counterproductive and if you > push too hard it usually fires back. > > Regards, > > Esteban A. Maringolo -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
