> Otherwise, the article would be pretty darn brief!
It is pretty darn brief. The title and first few paragraphs would lead one to believe that the article is going to be about programming language evangelisation.
Instead, it's nothing of the sort. It's nothing but a dishonest segue into listing the author's favourite merits of Smalltalk/Pharos then briefly mentioning the programming competition.
No dissection of existing approaches to programming language evangelisation; no analyses of successful approaches and lessons drawn from those with lesser success; no examination of the correlation between a programming language's long term succes and strong community-based evangelisation and/or support from a major, well-known player in the IT industry.
None of that.
The mention of the competition is literally in the last two paragraphs, the last of which is only one sentence.
Let's be honest: this isn't really an article at all. It's clickbait, and we've all been had. It attempts to write a cheque it can't cash.
It is pretty darn brief. The title and first few paragraphs would lead one to believe that the article is going to be about programming language evangelisation.
Instead, it's nothing of the sort. It's nothing but a dishonest segue into listing the author's favourite merits of Smalltalk/Pharos then briefly mentioning the programming competition.
No dissection of existing approaches to programming language evangelisation; no analyses of successful approaches and lessons drawn from those with lesser success; no examination of the correlation between a programming language's long term succes and strong community-based evangelisation and/or support from a major, well-known player in the IT industry.
None of that.
The mention of the competition is literally in the last two paragraphs, the last of which is only one sentence.
Let's be honest: this isn't really an article at all. It's clickbait, and we've all been had. It attempts to write a cheque it can't cash.