Le jeudi 10 Février 2005 04:37, Arthur a écrit : > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:23:06 +0100, Francis Girard > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I love him. > > I don't. > > >It's also interesting to see GUIs with windows, mouse (etc.), which > > apparently find their origin in is mind, probably comes from the desire > > to introduce computers to children. > > Alfred Bork, now > Professor Emeritus > Information and Computer Science > University of California, Irvine 92697 > > had written an article in 1980 called > > "Interactive Learning" which began > > "We are at the onset of a major revolution in education, a revolution > unparalleled since the invention of the printing press. The computer > will be the instrument of this revolution." > > In 2000 he published: > > "Interactive Learning: Twenty Years Later" > > looking back on his orignal article and its optimistic predictions and > admitting "I was not a very good prophet" > > What went wrong? > > Among other things he points (probably using a pointing device) at the > pointing device > > """ > Another is the rise of the mouse as a computer device. People had the > peculiar idea that one could deal with the world of learning purely by > pointing. > > """ > The articles can be found here: > > http://www.citejournal.org/vol2/iss4/seminal.cfm > > One does not need to agree or disagree, it seems to me about this or > that point on interface, or influence, or anything else. What one does > need to do is separate hope from actuality, and approach the entire > subject area with some sense of what is at stake, and with some true > sense of the complexity of the issues, in such a way that at this > stage of the game the only authentic stance is one of humility, > > Kay fails the humility test, dramatically. IMO.
I think I've been enthouasistic too fast. While reading the article I grew more and more uncomfortable with sayings like : - Intel and Motorola don't know how to do micro-processors and did not understand anything in our own architecture - Languages of today are features filled doggy bags - Java failed where I succeeded - I think beautifully like a mathematician while the rest is pop culture - etc. I'm not sure at all he likes Python. Python is too pragmmatic for him. And its definition does not hold in the palm of his hand. I think he's a bit nostalgic. Francis Girard or > > Art -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
