It is crucial to understand that "lowering barriers" can mean different even opposite things. You can lower barrier by helping someone to learn. And you can actually "lower barrier" by diminishing the goal.
And when we talking about social interaction we must acknowledge that people a different, and the is at lest three ways to deal with this difference, respect it, try to make everyone the same, or respect only some differences of some groups. For example men in general more aggressive then women, they also pursue different social goals. You cannot ignore this, or blame the men for what they are. You also cannot ignore the fact that people in general driven by their sexuality. My personal answer, first step after nip off violence is to educate people on their differences so they can build respect for each other. But this is not of course task for programming language community, it is just something that must be taken in to account. And teaching is whole another problem. 1. For different people learning something takes different effort, sometimes crucially different. So different people require different teaching approaches. And the metric is more complex then just easy/hard duality. But even this simple metric emerge a lot of problems. 2. Some people unable to learn some things no matter how hard they try. So the goal must be described in honest way. So people do not build false expectations. четверг, 25 июля 2019 г., 20:51:01 UTC+3 пользователь Atlas Atlas написал: > > I never said that lowering barriers is lying or insulting. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/bac69c64-ebf4-4451-b398-fc6f42f44001%40googlegroups.com.
