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Re: Why java is (not) bad for Mindstorms
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:37:45 GMT
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dan miller <danbmil99@AVOIDSPAMyahoo.com>
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--- PeterBalch <PeterBalch@compuserve.com> wrote:
> Seymour Papert put (and still puts) a great deal of passion into arguing
> for a smooth uphill path. He's convinced me.
I agree. I think the barriers are artificial, and really only benefit those
who might prefer their alchemy to be abstruse and difficult to master. It
allows them to be high priests of the inpenetrable incantation.
Mathematics didn't flourish beyond a very small, gifted and privileged
minority, until people stopped trying to use Roman Numerals to calculate.
Similarly, I suspect we will see a day when literacy in computing -- ie,
ability to program computers -- is ubiquitous among any population not
stricken by war or poverty.
-dbm
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| Kev (...) everything (...) Why not? Why couldn't the original RIS language interface have had a button to press which converted your program to a textual form like a conventional language? And this textual language had all the extra goodies that (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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