Rob wrote:
> Unfortunately, the presence of famous people doesn't
> automatically make a project intuitive, modern, or good for
> teaching kids.
I totally agree with this. But still I respect them. Not the famous
people, but great innovators.
> Squeak needs some updates, and maybe it needs
> new blood to make them happen, even if there are no PhD's
> contributing code anymore.
I couldn't care less for PhD's. I'm for self-education. Squeak, BTW, has
been inspired by the construtivism theories and by softwares like Logo
and HyperCard. Not really meant for PhD's.
>
> I personally think it needs some changes to the underlying
> language to make it accessible to first-time coders
> (scriptHello/self.setCharacters("Hello World")? How is that
> better than TO Hello/PRINT [Hello World]/END or good ol' Sub
> Main/Print "Hello World"/End? Or Sub Form_Open/Me.Text = "Hello
> World"/End if you need to be all OOPsy.)
>
>
Transcript show: 'Hello world'.
c.
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