hi ned

I know but what I want to explain is normal traditional not fun 
programming
like in Smalltalk ;)
One principle I try to apply is that I can only write on what I know 
well and I only know well how to program in traditional programming 
languages ;)

Seriously one of the problem is that I do not have a school to test 
full time eToy and learn from the experience so I stay in a domain I 
know. I think that what kim is writing can be really interesting 
because they have experience and the time to do it.

Stef
On Sunday, April 6, 2003, at 05:06 PM, Ned Konz wrote:

> On Saturday 05 April 2003 05:25 am, Stephane Ducasse wrote:
>
>> Simply because I could not master it. I'm too programming-language
>> oriented and I wanted to tell another story. eToy is event based
>> and concurrent and I wanted to be sequential. All in all in the end
>> is good because we will have multiple
>> material for teachers. I still think that a good book on using eToy
>> would be great and hope kim will have one soon. I hope to finish
>> the first book before the summer.
>
> If you're doing Karel, it should be pretty easy to do so in eToys.
> You'd supply scripts (or built-ins) for the basic 6 actions, and
> they'd write another script that calls those routines. No loops, of
> course, but they'd have conditionals. (And recursion).
>
> The concurrency would be absent or hidden (for instance, you would
> probably need a constantly-running script on the beepers to tell the
> robot when it's on top of a beeper).
>
> -- 
> Ned Konz
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>
>
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