Wow.  I don't often read an email message that makes my heart race.   
Exciting news, thank you for your extraordinary efforts.

And Alan Kay continues to move the world forward.

- Steve

On Jun 11, 2010, at 12:43 AM, John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com 
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> Well I was hoping to have a few more days to settle things.
>
> The Smalltalk community should take a deep bow and thank Alan Kay  
> for spending many hours talking to the highest level of people at  
> Apple about the importance of the iPad as a platform to teach  
> computational theory to people of all ages.
>
> So how does this all sort out? Well I don't know, nothing has  
> officially changed, yet...
>
> But I'm at WWDC this week, I did talk to the manager of the App  
> Store (they were expecting me) and I do have an appointment with  
> Apple next week to discuss the "Unless otherwise approved by Apple  
> in writing"
>
> Once that happens I will let everyone know the outcome, Apple is  
> working what the approval process is, and I think the Smalltalk &  
> Scratch community will be the first players in the door for Apple's  
> embracing of interpreted languages for educational purposes on the  
> iPad.
>
> I must publicly thank the Smalltalk and Scratch communities for  
> being patient and polite in waiting for the issue to resolve itself,  
> and true thanks should be directed to Alan for his behind the scenes  
> efforts in ensuring the Computer Science community has equal footing  
> with the language arts & music departments for apps on the iPad.
>
> I caution everyone that we're not there yet, but let's see what  
> happens next week, so don't open the champaign bottles yet.
>
> On 2010-06-10, at 7:40 PM, Lawson English wrote:
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>> Does this change the status of Scratch on iphone any?
>>
>> http://www.appleoutsider.com/2010/06/10/hello-lua/
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>>
>> Lawson
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