[Edu-sig] Freedom: some Smalltalk history and Python implications

[kirby urner]

> Or am I on my own planet, again?
>
> Art
>

I think such issues of esthetics are certainly topical and worth fleshing out.

Python actually has issues in this area, as python.com is an oft
mis-visited porn site, i.e. naming it after an animal has attracted a
following the original full Monty crew might not have intended.

Parents get pissed, and junior uses "just trying to do homework" as an
alibi (they're learning Python in the schools now, or hadn't you
heard).

Basically, *any* look and feel is going to rankle some parents, no
matter how grown up (*way* too grown up) or how condescending (or
otherwise freakazoid).

I think Squeakland, like Disney, is only consdescending only on the
surface.  Under the hood, you'll find real grownup engineers, happy to
show you the ropes on a guided tour (if you want to *work* the ropes,
you'll have to come through central casting (but in the meantime, go
crazy, it's only an image)).

Kirby