I'm not a professional programmer but I joined this list a while back because I believed in why's manifesto on creating something for beginning programmers, especially children or young adolescents and both tried Ruby and read why's books. Since I'm not a programmer, I haven't had much to contribute but have followed the threads. Why's work is truly amazing and I learned a lot from them (not a prof geek but an anthropologist here). Unless I'm really misreading the list, I sense that there's been a move away from this earlier goal for a while as people are working really hard on improving shoes's functionality and universal application in OSs, but I'm not reading a lot about that larger set of goals that shoes came out of. Is shoes to be (yet another) really helpful and multifunctional Ruby library, or is shoes to be the realization of why's manifesto for a toolkit that will enable those little fingers to grasp and fry up their own chunky bacon?
Hope I'm not out in left field--any other thoughts? John On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:07:32 -0400, doki_pen <[email protected]> wrote: > From what I've read in the archive, it's not a priority for why, but he > will accept a patch. Any other news? > > Stephen Paul Weber wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Has there been any discussion of what it would take to build shoes as a >> real Ruby library, so that it can be used in ruby scripts? >> >> -
