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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Dan Crosta
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 12:46 PM
To: edu-sig@python.org
Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Python for CS101
In fact, the only areas I think Python is *not* suitable are low-level
Also, down the road, I can see a CS curriculum which is pretty .NET centric,
To me, the spirit of Python and .Net are quite unaligned.
It seems that many of us who feel aligned with Python
feel aligned with it in spirit, more than in anything in
particular in its syntax and semantics.
If we
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, down the road, I can see a CS curriculum which is pretty .NET centric,
To me, the spirit of Python and .Net are quite unaligned.
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It is also no small thing to me to feel inhibited
from mentioning Ted's entry and hoping to stimulate some
I don't think it unreasonable to try to keep alive the notion that
at least certain kinds of academic institutions
would and should remain a degree removed from idea of
training, and a degree committed to the idea of
stimulating the development of more abstract skills
by way of a less goal
