Ian, among his talents, has a knack for terse, interesting generalizations. His style is so laid back that sometimes I wonder if other people notice how clever some of the things he says are. For instance:
"we shouldn't mistake design problems for deep and useful ideas. There's hard and deep and useful ideas too; I'm just pointing out that not all hard things are deep or useful" That's a keeper. On the other hand, let me remind everyone that many people despair of this list because it spends too much time on impractical generalities. So I would add that we shouldn't mistake interesting conversations for progress. Many of the topics raised here are hard and deep but, at least for present purposes, still not very useful. I believe should keep the conversation germane to the intersection of Python and education, specifically, to the development of Python tools that are relevant to education. I don't know what the twentieth precept is, but I nominate: "La perfection est atteinte non quand il ne reste rien a ajouter, mais quand il ne reste rien a enlever" -Antoine de St Exupery Let's try to say less and say it better. mt _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
