On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:31 PM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: > <rant> > > Count me a skeptic that there's anything unattractive about Python > that's to blame for keeping it from wider use in school systems.
[SNIP] > </rant> > > Kirby Hmm, I don't see anything in the original post that refer to "wider use in school systems" or, indeed, any reference to schools at all. I think the original poster made a perfectly sensible observation, one that I have read many times in different settings. It is a fact that the hurdle to try Ruby via http://tryruby.hobix.com is much lower than having to download and install Python. There are a couple of places where one can do something similar online (http://www.trypython.org/ , if you have silverlight installed on your computer) (http://datamech.com/devan/trypython/trypython.py) but none is done in as an attractive way as the tryruby site is. I think it is a valid goal to try and remedy this situation - something I am (just like Michael Foord and others) trying to address. <usenet etiquette rant> And I don't understand why the quoted message appeared to be a reply to what I wrote when not a single line of quoted text was something I wrote. </usenet etiquette rant> André > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Andre Roberge <andre.robe...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Jurgis Pralgauskis >> <jurgis.pralgaus...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> it would make python more attractive, >>> if there would be possibility to try it online >>> like ruby has http://tryruby.hobix.com >>> >>> maybe this could be made with jython , http://code.google.com/p/epy/ >>> or crunchy on GAE > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig