{"id":375,"date":"2004-03-10T21:36:12","date_gmt":"2004-03-11T02:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/03\/10\/why-arguing-about-smalltalk-doesnt-mat"},"modified":"2004-03-10T21:36:12","modified_gmt":"2004-03-11T02:36:12","slug":"why-arguing-about-smalltalk-doesnt-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/03\/10\/why-arguing-about-smalltalk-doesnt-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Why arguing about Smalltalk doesn&#8217;t matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a331'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve been following the blog thread regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amber.org\/~petrilli\/archive\/2004\/03\/08\/why_people_dont_get_smalltalk.html\">Why People Don&#8217;t Get SmallTalk<\/a> and the ensuing responses and counter-responses.  Ian Bicking offers his thoughts on what&#8217;s missing in Smalltalk (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colorstudy.com\/ianb\/weblog\/2004\/03\/09.html\">First post<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colorstudy.com\/ianb\/weblog\/2004\/03\/10.html#P68\">second post<\/a>).  The brought up an ensuing discussion on Ian&#8217;s own blog (go check the comments in his posts) and a couple of other blogs:<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/patricklogan.blogspot.com\/archives\/2004_03_07_patricklogan_archive.html#107888546106041899\">Patrick Logan&#8217;s thoughts<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincomsmalltalk.com\/blog\/blogView?showComments=true&amp;entry=3256315899\">Smalltalk with Rants<\/a><br \/>\n\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo like a typical geek I spent some time thinking about a response.  I was going<br \/>\nto put in this absolutely breathtaking no holds-barred response to all of these people<br \/>\nbut then I figured why bother.   So I leave you with this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anvari.org\/fun\/Job\/The_Electrical_Engineer_Versus_The_Programmer.html\">parable<\/a> on why I&#8217;m not bothering.   And this other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perl.com\/pub\/a\/2000\/12\/advocacy.html\">parable<\/a> on why the whole thing doesn&#8217;t really matter to me.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amber.org\/~petrilli\/archive\/2004\/03\/08\/why_people_dont_get_smalltalk.html\">The post that started it all<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colorstudy.com\/ianb\/weblog\/2004\/03\/09.html\">Ian&#8217;s First response to the post<\/a> (Check the comments and linkbacks for responses to him)<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anvari.org\/fun\/Job\/The_Electrical_Engineer_Versus_The_Programmer.html\">Why I&#8217;m not bothering to write some earth-shattering response<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.perl.com\/pub\/a\/2000\/12\/advocacy.html\">Why it doesn&#8217;t matter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following the blog thread regarding Why People Don&#8217;t Get SmallTalk and the ensuing responses and counter-responses. Ian Bicking offers his thoughts on what&#8217;s missing in Smalltalk (First post, second post). The brought up an ensuing discussion on Ian&#8217;s own blog (go check the comments in his posts) and a couple of other blogs: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}