----- Original Message ----- From: kirby urner Date: Friday, September 15, 2006 12:09 pm Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] The fate of raw_input() in Python 3000 To: Arthur Cc: John Zelle , edu-sig@python.org
> On 9/15/06, Arthur wrote: > > > Trying to sing it from the Disney and HP pulpits - if nothing > else - > > maybe it necessarily off-key. Thinking no one would notice > from where > > he was singing it made it arrogantly off-key. > > But you see, for me, if Steve Jobs ran some humvees into Average > Podunk U or CC, and planted a Pixar flag, opened a boot camp for gnu > math teachers (trailers on the field), that'd probably be a big step > up in lifestyle for the students. Flatscreens in all dorm rooms, > professors who knew something. Once the humvees were gone, > maybe next > morning (a fleeting circus), students would be left with the > impression: oh, there *is* a life after college, and it has high > standards too (maybe higher). There is no such thing as gnu math, so I have idea what the hell you are talking about. > > Disney is a stronger teacher than Heidegger in my book. And if you submit that book to the marketplace of ideas and few buy it - well, the marketplace has spoken. If you submit motives for a conspiracy of suppression that ring true, that might be considered, in some circles. You haven't, to my ear. Your conspiracy theory seems to be in line with Kay's - that everyone is simply dumber. No wonder you belong to the same support group. > If the Ivory Tower had any pride, it'd have raised the CP4E > banner I have zero stake in the Ivory Tower. And I would like to bury the CP4E banner. So the problem must be a little more complicated than that. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
