> I am hoping that *that* is the role that .Net ends up playing. Sounds like you're praying for a very expensive train wreck.
Just to make education better? Pretty high price tag. If .NET is slated to go down the tubes, then kiss good-bye your online eticketing and ebanking sites that use it (many already do, more will). Do you have any strong feelings about J2EE? We should teach Sun's Java exclusively? > And by wrong technology, it doesn't mean that the technology is wrong. > Just means that there end up being forces beyond their control (there > still are a few things like that ;)) that ending up working against its > acceptance. That'd be bad for Python, given its great promise as a key dynamic language in upcoming Novell distros, as part of the GNOME desktop, and running atop Mono.[1] > When the French revolutionists sort to decimalize time, they had both > absolute power and a good deal of logic on their side. And failed > nonetheless. > > Art Decimal time is not unfamiliar in many technical applications. A common mistake is to think either/or. Not "astronomical OR atomic time" -- we can have both standards in play.[2] Kirby [1] http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS7372554664.html [2] http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2005/09/wanderers-200597.html _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
