kirby urner wrote: > I'm pleased you have become so enthusiastic about Paul's work.
I know you know this, but just as an obligatory disclaimer, if PataPata is any good, while I can (and will :-) certainly take some credit for yet another attempt at putting constructivist educational ideas (and a prototype-programming paradigm) into a Pythonic context, the vast bulk of the ideas are coming through others like David Ungar, Adele Goldberg, John Maloney, Randy Smith, Maria Montessori, Dan Ingalls, Alan Kay, Seymour Papert, Grace Llewellyn, Diane Balestri, David Ferguson, and so on -- even Richard Stallman for the free software movement, and of course Guido van Rossum, for making Python so approachable and already prototype-ish. So, "shoulders of giants" and all that. :-) By the way: "Shoulders of Giants -- A Paper on the Inevitability of Open Source Dominance" http://www.cyber.com.au/users/conz/shoulders.html And there is nothing like even one interested user to motivate improvements. It's not so much recognition as just the thought it might actually be useful(*) and so worth the continued investment of time relative to other priorities and interests. --Paul Fernhout (*) From Winnie-The-Pooh: Chapter 7: "Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once." _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig