[OLPC library] Curly Logo / OLPC

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Nov 29, 2007, at 11:39 , David Jones wrote:

> On 28 Nov 2007, at 20:28, Ian Bicking wrote:
>
>> Julius B. Lucks wrote:
>>> I am cc'ing the games and library lists to put you in contact with
>>> other OLPC developers. SJ Klein asks what license Curly Logo is
>>> available under, and if you have not chosen a license, would you
>>> consider a free license.
>>> You can sign up for the OLPC developers program to have access to
>>> a machine at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_program,
>>> although I am not sure of the availability at the moment - someone
>>> from the list would know more than I do on this point.
>>> The Unicode ability is very nice as one of the strong focuses for
>>> OLPC activities is internationalization.
>>
>> I notice it already has support for ÷ and ×, which coincidentally
>> the XO has keys for.
>
> Perhaps not such a coincidence.  Part of my background motivation for
> Curly Logo was accessibility.  That led me to think that using *
> and / instead of × and ÷ was a barrier to understanding: before using
> almost any computer programming language we have to explain that *
> denotes multiplication and / denotes division, it's just an
> unnecessary hurdle.  Of course my keyboard doesn't have × and ÷
> keys.  I'm sure similar thoughts occurred to the designers of OLPC.

Do you support "·" and ":", too? These are used for multiplication  
and division in schools here ...

- Bert -