Well, okay, true enough. And I certainly wouldn't press Rev's natural language leveraging to teach programming to a non-English-speaking child! But the original Slashdot post concerned young English-speaking children and hence I thought Rev would be ideal (certainly better than pretty much every other language being proposed). But your point is well-taken. I was thinking about that the other day and wondered whether learning Rev would have a negative impact on speaking, reading and writing the English language (or the other way around even).
Judy http://revined.blogspot.com On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:40 PM, François Chaplais < [email protected]> wrote: > > Le 12 déc. 08 à 19:50, Bill Marriott a écrit : > > If about 100x as many users end up using Revolution, it might be possible >> one day to invest in, say, a Spanish variant and still have it deemed an >> "xTalk." Despite their widespread usage I don't know of a similar option >> for >> C++, Java, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, HTML, etc., which all use snippets of >> English in their syntax. So, the teeming masses of children you speak of >> will be in the same boat. Sorry but nowadays English is the international >> language of business and technology. >> > > I think you missed the point. Kids are not in business or technology. They > are in childhood. > > As far as educated adults (or teens) are concerned, I completely agree > that, for better of worse, english is nowadays' lingua franca ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca ). > > cheers from Paris > François > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
