> At what point does it become appropriate to expect this conversation to > move over to "Squeakland" - where kids who are different than I was are > treated without condescension. > > Art >
In general I favor a liberal approach to direct comparison of Python with other langauges at the syntax and design level because: (a) it's a genre, well developed, with lots of literature and (b) it's educational, helps define core concepts and CS and (c) it's relevant, especially to people "just getting into" language X We've had some extended discussions of both Logo and J over the years, per archive, so I don't think which should be especially inhibitory towards Smalltalk. Of course I sound like I'm moderating but I'm not a moderator, just expressing druthers that we set precedent for liberal dumping of alien language syntax (could get to be a problem, if really sophisticated unicode clients are presumed). Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
