[sugar] Education?
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Sat Mar 10 08:47:39 EST 2007
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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