Deposing Dictators

[Arthur_Siegel at rsmi.com]

Tim writes - 

>I'll spell it out:  I don't care about VPython.  Never did.  

Nor do most of the community focus particularly or care
more than superficially about the CP4E initiative.  Happens
I follow it closely and my involvement with Python is focused
there.

So I am reporting from the front.

And yes I quite resent and find destructive the prominence of 
the role and access given to Carnegie Mellon.

How do I say this without sounding harebrained.

The academics have had their thirty years shot at designing
a language ideal for learning - and failed.  I would like not
to see them hijack Python into making the same mistakes.

Alice tacks an educational intent onto to its VR meanderings. 

I won't go further - other than to say that if it represents an educational
philosophy at all, it is one at the fringes - and deservedly so.  

Python's potential in education, on the other hand,  is right 
down the middle mainstream. 

It is further discouraging that I, as you have correctly pointed out, have
become isolated from the community for pressing this issue.  Because
in the larger picture I am pressing positions, I believe, that are toward
defending Python from the fate of being seen as an adjunct to, and 
evolving under the influence of,  a particular  and largely indefensible
educational "ideal".

ART