python.org: Computer Programming for Everybody

Markus Kohler markus_kohler at hp.com
Thu Jun 10 09:41:36 UTC 1999


Marcus Denker wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> >From Linux Weekly News (lwn.net):
> 
>   Computer programming for everybody. Guido van Rossum,
>   along with a few other collaborators, sent in a proposal to DARPA
>   (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) entitled
>   "Computer Programming for Everybody." The purpose is to make
>   programming accessible to a much larger portion of the population
>   through the creation of an appropriate set of tools and training
>   materials. "We compare mass ability to write and modify software
>   with mass literacy, and expect that equally fundamental changes
>   to society may ensue." The language of choice, of course, will be
>   Python. This looks to be an interesting project.
> 
> http://www.python.org/doc/essays/everybody.html
> 
 
Please let's not start language wars, Smalltalk is anyway the best language ;-)

It's interesting to see that Squeak already can do all the things he want to
have for Python. 


Markus
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