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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