Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Which Language?

2009-09-28 Thread Kevin Cole
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 00:00, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All, On Thursday, Ben wrote in the IAEP list: My feeling is that the most important thing we can do in this area is to make it easy to write Activities that are intrinsically cross-platform. To borrow a phrase, one

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Which Language?

2009-09-27 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 27.09.2009, at 00:17, gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada (705) 250-0112) wrote: -- I do not have a XO ... I've heard it has a LOGO variant called Etoys ? (can Etoys read a camera image?) Etoys is built on a Smalltalk variant called Squeak, but yes, it can access the XO-1's

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Which Language?

2009-09-27 Thread DancesWithCars
At the risk of this becoming a religious issue of the best languages, we have not heard what the project is, i.e. what the person is wanting to build, so it is difficult to recommend the best tool for the job... Personally, the sales ptich from an old tv ad of 'it slices, it dices, it makes

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Which Language?

2009-09-26 Thread DancesWithCars
: [IAEP] [support-gang] Which Language? Caryl. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team A great deal of useful information about developing activities for the Sugar environment can be found on the Sugar Labs wiki.  I would recommend starting with this page and following links from

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Which Language?

2009-09-26 Thread gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada (705) 250-0112)
Caryl, in part: the consensus is Python so far. (a) the sample is too small for a consenus. (b) why JUST one language? ~~ if your only tool is a hammer, all of your problems tend to look like nails (c) J (d) other candidates: LISP, LOGO, Forth (e) It's an educational project: that screams

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Which Language?

2009-09-26 Thread Caryl Bigenho
OK, the consensus is Python so far. Can he do that strictly on XOs? How does he package it to share as an Activity? Can he do it on a Mac or PC and then package it for Sugar? I think he would really like to do it all on the XO. Is this possible? How does it get from terminal mode to being a

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Which Language?

2009-09-26 Thread Chris Leonard
Caryl. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team A great deal of useful information about developing activities for the Sugar environment can be found on the Sugar Labs wiki. I would recommend starting with this page and following links from there. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Which Language?

2009-09-26 Thread Alan Kay
...@gmail.com; Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT laptop.org support-g...@lists.laptop.org; IAEP SugarLabs iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 9:37:00 AM Subject: Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Which Language? It doesn't get much better than a language [co

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Which Language?

2009-09-26 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
can you LOGO in an image from the camera? gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada (705) 250-0112) wrote: Caryl, in part: the consensus is Python so far. (a) the sample is too small for a consenus. (b) why JUST one language? ~~ if your only tool is a hammer, all of your problems tend to look

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Which Language?

2009-09-26 Thread gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada (705) 250-0112)
Yamandu Ploskonka asked: can you LOGO in an image from the camera? -- why not? it might require an extension to LOGO (do not know) otoh, why? if your only tool is a hammer, all of your problems tend to look like nails -- use LOGO for its originally intended purpose -- I do not have a

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Which Language?

2009-09-26 Thread Jim Simmons
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