There are shadings, not just white and black. When the average user, not a C litterate, has some logic mind and easy ways to sit down and make that useful idea get shape on the device, without having to study fulltime for months and become a "real" coder for that, that sparkle in mind can happen and he/she really sits down. The "easy ways to sit down and make" can be:
1) a language like Python working without problems; 2) easy and easily findable step-by-step tutorials explaning how to have a self-written Python script running on the device; 3) easily findable sample scripts explaining how to achieve common stuff; There is a hidden (maybe not great, but at least self-useful) coder in every logic-minded user. Those at INdT are doing a great job, even if we're still far from the moment things will be clean enough to make those users smoothly think "I can do that". -- Antonio > Not to disparage the goal of full Python support or anything, but I > daresay the average user buys the tablets for their web browsing ability > et al, not for the opportunity to open up an xterm and start hacking > Python. > > Cheers, > Daniel _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
