At Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:14:59 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: > > Hi, > > >> Some schools are getting iPod touches (??? is that the plural) > >> for their elementary schools to use. Apple has a big push with > >> this and has several demo projects going. I saw one at CUE in > >> March. Very impressive! All they need to make it perfect is > >> some Sugar Apps! > > > Single user Sugar Activities in Python should be fairly easy to > > port. Smalltalk, no problem. Full collaboration would be a lot > > of work, due to its extensive use of Linux-specific libraries. > > Sounds like you're unfamiliar with Apple's ban on interpreted > languages: > > http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/apple-scratch-app > > "An Application may not itself install or launch other executable > code by any means, including without limitation through the use of > a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or > otherwise. No interpreted code may be downloaded or used in an > Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s > Documented APIs and built-in interpreter(s)."
Yes but there was an interesting movement in that area: http://www.appleoutsider.com/2010/06/10/hello-lua/ Read the thread "Re: Talking to Steve Jobs about Scratch. " at: http://lists.esug.org/pipermail/esug-list_lists.esug.org/2010-June/thread.html and http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-June/thread.html -- Yoshiki _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
