Point of potential interest.

Giovanni Corriga giovanni at corriga.net
Sat Feb 10 18:22:33 UTC 2007


Il giorno ven, 09/02/2007 alle 20.37 -0600, Eugene Wallingford ha
scritto:
> > >I seem to recall that the author has declared that he took Smalltalk as
> > >inspiration in creating BlueJ ;)
> > 
> > That's cool. Cool and sad. :-)
> 
>      He did.  He was looking for a way to teach objects to
>      novices, and he considered but dismissed Smalltalk.
>      The reasons were part linguistic, part cultural, and
>      part practical.  (If you are interested I can find a
>      pointer a paper he wrote explaining the search,
>      given at SIGCSE.)

Please do. Addressing his concerns would be good for both the devel team
(for the practical ones) and the pr team (for the linguistics and
cultural ones).

	Giovanni




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