> PyGeo is interesting work. > Agreed.
> My efforts to assist in provding VPython a future(lead actually, since > no one else has stepped up to the plate) is important work. > > Immodest enough for you. Feel better. > A little. But these are both esoteric back office enclave kinds of jobs, appreciated by an inner circle, but not getting out in front with a rhetoric. Do you think no rhetoric is required, or only that your role is not to provide it, only to kibbitz from the sidelines when others strut their stuff (e.g. Kay). > > And I dislike it surrounding the pontificating used to justify Algebra > > I, Algebra II, Geometry, Pre-calc, Calc (in whatever order), all > > undisturbed fossils for the ages, no chance of any Python unless > > we jump through stupid hoops proving over and over we're not just > > full of snake oil (got some __ribs__ in here too). > > So much of the Grand Fallooning sounds like snake oil and *is* snake > oil, that particularly those trained in mathematics - in the art of > plausibility - will react, and over-react. > > We agree about everything, except that we disagree about everything as well. > > Art Which is another back office job you have, to sing sweet canary songs as we dash down this or that mine shaft, looking for some door into summer. Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
