Re: [Pharo-users] Amazing Grace

Yes, a more correct statement would be a man alone can spark a lot of things, but renaissance is a collective endeavor. In all of he examples you mention, small teams work in tandem with more broader cultural phenomena, like acceptance of a movie or programming language. My point was this orga

Re: [Pharo-users] Amazing Grace

That is not quite true. As a matter of fact the vast majority of examples of huge success were started by one person or a very small team of people. Rarely big successes come from large companies with huge amount of people and investing ridiculous amount on marketing. Take films for example , the

Re: [Pharo-users] Amazing Grace

Congratulations Richard. You deserve lots of credit for attempting and persevering on such a daunting task. I want to help you succeed to Make Smalltalk Great Again. The problem is where to get to money to do that. Why does JP Morgan, OOCL, Cargill and other companies that make lots of money due t

Re: [Pharo-users] Amazing Grace

I agree: A man along can not, even if he's wearing several hats: president of the campaign, campaigner, advocate, funding department, founder. But actions like this can turn some eyes towards deeper experience way beyond advertising. It was not my case and I don't know how many start with a tec

Re: [Pharo-users] Amazing Grace

Ah ah, yeah. Man alone can't but keep on trucking, any advertising is fine as people forget if it was good or bad, just that they were exposed to the product. And engineering is making progress :-) Phil On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 8:11 PM, horrido wrote: > I was totally surprised to see this tod

[Pharo-users] Amazing Grace

I was totally surprised to see this today. It completely blows my mind! I feel like I've won an Oscar. http://thenewstack.io/can-man-spark-renaissance-smalltalk-programming-language/ -- View this message in con