On Oct 8, 1:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Harvey) wrote: > "Kjetil S. Matheussen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >I don't think your speculations makes very much sence. > > Amen. > > And, in any case, there's no need to speculate. MIT has published, on their > web site, pages and pages of rationale for the new curriculum. > > The most important point, imho, is that the programming language was the > /least/ important aspect of the decision. The most important aspect was > the move to an application-based (rather than topic-based) organization > of the curriculum. The details flow out of that big shift of focus.
Where is the logic ? python = application based ? scheme = topic based ? Does python have continuations ? Is python progress or regress to the fortran style of natural language ? Dont they both have a great IDE in eclipse with respective plugins? Does scheme have a gui library? I really dont follow the logic. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
