On Wednesday 01 Feb 2012 8:36:45 AM David T. Lewis wrote:
I have to laugh every time I read someone making a comment to the effect that Squeak is not "serious" because it has a silly name. I love the silly name, because it takes a gentle poke at all of us who become distracted into thinking that tools and technology are more important than thinking and communicating.
+1
Classifying work into as productive or unproductive/leisure/entertainment is an artifact of industrial age. Watching kids learn through play is the best antidote to this tendency ;-).
If work is to become play, then tools should become toys .. Lee Felsenstein
Regards .. Subbu