some news

Hilaire Fernandes hilaire at ext.cri74.org
Sat Apr 22 13:49:29 UTC 2006



Alan Kay a écrit :
> I agree that content is really important, and even more so is mentoring.
> The language is less so providing it doesn't develop limited ideas (like
> BASIC did).
> 
> Squeak was 10 years ago to make a system for children, parents and
> teachers that could allow learning by doing, but also as a publishing
> and communications medium: specifically, the goal was to get 1000 pieces
> of 21st century content out on the net in a form that would allow
> learning by doing and collaboration.
> 
> This didn't happen -- but I'm hoping it will, even 5 or more years late.
> It would be great if more people (programmers) were interested in the
> larger destinies of computing.

Why did this not happen? Studying this question could be important to
not redo the same mistake; if it is considered as a failure.

Hilaire



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