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Dead brains Re: What is killing Smalltalk...
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| Piotr Palacz 2004-06-10, 3:57 am |
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"Volker Zink" <Volker.Zink@porabo.ch> wrote in message
news:40c57a4d$1@news.totallyobjects.com...
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>But that is not the point. I wanted to stress
> that this time was very bad for Smalltalk. In the mind of some kind of
> managers Smalltalk was really dead.
The fundamental problem is not that much that Smalltalk is really dead
in the mind of some kind of managers, but rather that the minds of
of quite a few managers have been dead for a long time.
And if, by some trick of fortune, this is not yet quite the case,
the typical environments in which they plod on
reward them for being brain-dead or at least for pretending to be such.
The rest, IMO, is just either a special case or a consequence of the above.
The bottom line is that we are facing a black hole in the Solar System -
that of
systemic managerial idiocy, which from a rational point of view should be
self-defeating, but which in practice thrives like cancer.
Piotr
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| In article <hyTxc.9658$Fd.8779@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com>, Piotr Palacz says...
>The fundamental problem is not that much that Smalltalk is really dead
>in the mind of some kind of managers, but rather that the minds of
>of quite a few managers have been dead for a long time.
>And if, by some trick of fortune, this is not yet quite the case,
>the typical environments in which they plod on
>reward them for being brain-dead or at least for pretending to be such.
>
>The rest, IMO, is just either a special case or a consequence of the above.
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>The bottom line is that we are facing a black hole in the Solar System -
>that of
>systemic managerial idiocy, which from a rational point of view should be
>self-defeating, but which in practice thrives like cancer.
>
>Piotr
AMEN.
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