You are absolutely right! Lorenzo
-----Messaggio originale----- Da: Esteban Maringolo [mailto:emaring...@gmail.com] Inviato: domenica 25 luglio 2021 17:54 A: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Oggetto: [Pharo-users] Re: The Greatest Contributors to Smalltalk since 1980 On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 11:31 AM Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote: > Isn’t this the wrong question to ask? I’m assuming this is to do with > Smalltalk’s 50th anniversary, and of course we are grateful to those early > pioneers who did lots of work in the field 20-30 years ago but to me that’s > the old history and while it’s interesting to call out, it doesn’t shed life > on the day to day energy we have today - whst keeps Smalltalk alive and > current. Hi share the view, it's the wrong question, and it pursues that "hero worshipping" culture that is already dead (or at least outdated) since a long time ago. Additionally, I don't share the "keeping Smalltalk alive" expression, as if dying was its inevitable outcome. I haven't heard "keeping LISP alive" (and I don't call LISP as dead either). It would be self-deceiving to call ourselves mainstream, but that doesn't mean we're doomed somehow. So in 50 years we should celebrate the half-century, remember the history, look at what we did "wrong", and focus on looking forward, because "the best way to predict the future is to invent it" ;-) Regards! Esteban A. Maringolo
