Alan Kay wrote:

> We got interested in this because, over the years, we started to
> notice that in every experimental group about 5% (sometimes as much
> as 10%) of the children went directly to the heart of the matter.
> These were the children who were successful with LOGO on a wireframe
> screen and in the early days of Smalltalk with limited graphics. What
> was going on with (say) the next 70-80%?
>       Well, given the recent success of Kim Rose's experiments with
> teacher B-J Conn at the Open School, one answer is that some of these
> kids needed "costumes on their turtles". They were happy to program
> if the result was some element in their story.

This sounds like the answer to the native GUI question. Give people those
widgets and they be really happy. But then of course one have to
compromise 
a lot of portability etc...

Karl