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Ron Jeffries has started a new series of articles in the same vein as Adventures in C#. The new series is called “Designing Better Code”, and is (at least in the beginning?) dealing with Smalltalk. I linkblogged the two first articles yesterday, and the third will be linkblogged soonish. However, in the last article Ron asks the following question:

[I]f you’re reading and enjoying these articles, please drop me a note and let me know, since I’m concerned that there aren’t that many people interested in what programming looks like in this language. If you’re not reading them, or not enjoying them, please keep it to yourself.

First I must say I like the way Ron writes. Even though he really knows the (craft|art|what have you) of programming, he can describe things in a newbie friendly way, that also attract people like me that know some about programming. I like all the stuff he has written (at least all the stuff I’ve read). The “Adventures in C#” series was really great (although I didn’t read the book) and I look forward to more articles like those. It’s interesting to read about TestDrivenDevelopment (because I do it so rarely myself) and it’s interesting to read about a new programming language—Smalltalk. I like learning new languages, but I find it hard to take the time that’s needed (even though Pragmatic Programmer tells me to learn a new language each year). So these kind of articles are a perfect fit for me! Keep ‘em coming!