Am Jan 21, 2007 um 15:25 schrieb Arthur: > Paul D. Fernhout wrote: >> >> I think making easy and widely available this support for easy >> debugging >> into a function and changing it and restarting all in a still running >> application would be of great value to anyone learning through >> tinkering >> with a Python-powered application (like an educational >> simulation). And it >> would increase Python programmer productivity when developing >> medium to >> large applications probably by a factor of at least 2X or 3X. > > The interest in Python for the Squeak folks seems only that there is a > larger and more dynamic community of folks devoted to its use and > continued development.
Actually, Squeak folks do fine. They're not flocking to Python, even though Paul (unfortunatly for us) left a few years ago. You may be confusing Alan Kay's reaching out to the Python community with what the Squeak community does. Two very different pairs of shoes. > Somehow. > > The possibility that you should as a consequence transition, while > here, > to learning mode from teaching mode might, I would think might, > occur to > you. We all are learners. I actually enjoy reading and learn from many of your posts. Likewise, the possibility that what Paul writes from his experience might actually be something for you to learn. I know it's hard to appreciate the advantages of a fully interactive and reflexive system unless you have actually used one. Paul has. > But you are in a community that accepts the rejection of > empiricism, so > I guess there is some amount of consistency in point-of-view. Repeating this over and over does not actually make it true. People in OLPC have been empirically studying working with kids and computers longer than anyone else. - Bert - _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
