For example, I don't buy that it's an either/or situation. You seem to think a Klein-reading Euclid-drawing subgenius, properly suspicious of Bucky (maybe armed with a few Bucky jokes) can't suddenly jump up and run over to an Alice workstation, there to play with cute skiing bunnies and other programmable (scriptable) cartoon figures. Just because you seem to buy into the impossibility of such kids, why should I? I say there's plenty of room for both PyGeo and Alice, that it has *never* been an either/or equation (hence a tremendous waste of time in the archives -- feel free to never read it folks).
I do understand that you don't want a vapid flouncy curriculum that trades away all command line hardness for fuzzy wuzzy bunny wunny cartoons. Sure, fine. I'm with ya. But I'm not ready to pull out my big guns at the drop of a hat and celebrate my ascendency over all GUI-based animation APIs, including the ones with Python bindings I'm hoping for (Blender is already one of them). I'll sooner go after neocons or nazis than cute bunny wunny APIs. You seem to have a misplaced sense of priorities. So then I have to wonder if it's just jealously. You've accomplished something with PyGeo and now, in order to attract attention, indulge in Voodoo with little bunny dolls, making a spectacle of yourself in the process. I think that's a misappropriation of the fame PyGeo could win you. You should write that book about Klein, as applied in this modern world, show how PyGeo could work its way into various curricula, brainstorm various ways forward. Throwing stones at your glass-housed neighbors is just not a way to attract new friends and influence people. And so your influence wanes. I say turn that around. Be the big friendly Arthur who will show us the hard stuff and make it seem easy. But don't be afraid to dress up in a bunny suit over the weekends, if it helps pay the bills. You don't need to see this as a war. We're both manifestations of What Python Is Doing (lots more than you or I will ever live to appreciate, no? -- that's how I feel about it). Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
