That is, Re: Kelleher and Pausch's Lowering the Barriers to
Programming, ACM Computing Surveys 37(2)
Here's a comment off the top, and apart from the more obvious issue
for the edu-sig group (namely, Python's near-complete absence): the
"taxonomy" is completely ahistorical; they seem to have set up 60+
programming environments next to one another and considered them all
at face value, with no particular consideration for the time and
context from which each emerged (we're talking a 45-year span here).
The two exceptions to this are the repeated reference to a god-given,
eternal "logo turtle", and a chart which tracks the "influences" of
various systems on one another, but only by simple bibliometrics.
I'm working on a comprehensive history of the Smalltalk/Squeak
'tradition' so this facet pops out at me immediately, as there are a
half-dozen or more Smalltalk-derived systems listed here, though
you'd never know it from the article.
My 2 cents. What do you folk think of this?
- John Maxwell
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