Tangential anti-educationist rant (was: what is easier to lea rn first?...)

[Alessandro Bottoni]

This is the kind of boss you can meet in most italian schools (not
universities) and in most italian companies. Do you have any better managers
over there? (beware: I work for an american company, with a top-level
american management...;-)

This topic could opens up three interesting discussion threads:
1) How can we present Python to our managers and get them converted to the
true Faith?
2) How can we get Python well-known and widely accepted, like Basic? 
Do there is a way to have Python mentioned in the primary school books, like
it *does" happen here for Basic?
3) How can we free people from Basic and Perl? Electrochock? Exorcism?
Re-educational Gulags? Mind erasing/rewriting a la "Total recall"?

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Alessandro Bottoni (Alessandro.Bottoni at Think3.com)
Web Programmer @ Think3 inc. (www.think3.com)
I do not speak for think3 and they return the favour

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jason Stokes [SMTP:jstok at bluedog.apana.org.au]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 22, 2000 12:21 AM
> To:	python-list at python.org
> Subject:	Re: Tangential anti-educationist rant (was: what is easier
> to learn first?...)
> 
> 
> Alessandro Bottoni wrote in message
> <6D8A17398E28D3119F860090274DD7DB4985E5 at pces.cadlab.it>...
> 
> >Basic and C are well-known, no more than well-known. Hence, they are
> >understandable.
> 
> Any boss who can countenance the teaching of Basic, programming
> mind-killer,
> has no business in education in the first place.  I think this is a stupid
> boss story.
> 
> I got started in TI-BASIC.  I had to unlearn it all to learn real
> programming.
> 
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