Rob Rothwell wrote:
> 1. I was a sound bite! ("As a new Smalltalker, I couldn't understand
> Seaside.") Kind of embarrassing, huh?!
Just answering to the Smalltalk side of things. In my experience looking
at people learning Smalltalk there are a few things more or less special
about learning Smalltalk:
- it is a language that is orders of magnitude easier to learn with
someone mentoring you (best sitting next to you)
- it takes a decent programmer about three months until they hear this
loud clicking noise in their head: the switch being thrown to think the
Smalltalk (OO) way. And there will be no way back
- good programmers become more productive, not so good ones become less
productive in Smalltalk compared to other languages
- there are actually people who don't get it. At all. But those are
rare, fortunately
Why is this not the same in e.g. Java? You can cheat and avoid OO ;-)
Just MTC €
Michael
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