Thank you Alan&John for your great job ! I will maybe buy an ipad and i would love to do some Squeak/Pharo activities in this platform.
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:43 PM, John M McIntosh <[email protected]> wrote: > Well I was hoping to have a few more days to settle things. > > The Smalltalk community should take a deep bow and thank Alan Kay for > spending many hours talking to the highest level of people at Apple about the > importance of the iPad as a platform to teach computational theory to people > of all ages. > > So how does this all sort out? Well I don't know, nothing has officially > changed, yet... > > But I'm at WWDC this week, I did talk to the manager of the App Store (they > were expecting me) and I do have an appointment with Apple next week to > discuss the "Unless otherwise approved by Apple in writing" > > Once that happens I will let everyone know the outcome, Apple is working what > the approval process is, and I think the Smalltalk & Scratch community will > be the first players in the door for Apple's embracing of interpreted > languages for educational purposes on the iPad. > > I must publicly thank the Smalltalk and Scratch communities for being patient > and polite in waiting for the issue to resolve itself, and true thanks should > be directed to Alan for his behind the scenes efforts in ensuring the > Computer Science community has equal footing with the language arts & music > departments for apps on the iPad. > > I caution everyone that we're not there yet, but let's see what happens next > week, so don't open the champaign bottles yet. > > On 2010-06-10, at 7:40 PM, Lawson English wrote: > >> Does this change the status of Scratch on iphone any? >> >> http://www.appleoutsider.com/2010/06/10/hello-lua/ >> >> >> Lawson > > -- > =========================================================================== > John M. McIntosh <[email protected]> Twitter: squeaker68882 > Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com > =========================================================================== > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > > -- Serge Stinckwich UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://doesnotunderstand.org/ _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
