On Mar 10, 2007, at 14:02 , Don Hopkins wrote:
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
[...] If anything is an anathema, then it's the huge body of
impenetrable C code in linux, the libraries, X11, gecko, gtk,
cairo, and, yes, underlying Python, too, and even Squeak, though
to a much lesser extent. This prevents opening the hood, seeing
how things work, modifying it, constructing new things etc. *This*
is against the OLPC philosophy, which explicitly encourages
constructionist learning.
If you're going to flame, can't you do any better than that? ;-)
Sure there are lessons to be learned from the mistakes of the past,
and we're forced to use software that sucks because there's
currently no better alternative, but you should be more specific
and suggest better alternatives when you complain about what's
wrong, if you want to advance the state of the art!
I guess you did not see my reply to your previous message, where I
specifically pointed to how indeed we are advancing the state of the
art?
- Bert -
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