[sugar] Education?

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Mar 10, 2007, at 14:02 , Don Hopkins wrote:

> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> [...] If anything is an anathema, then it's the huge body of  
>> impenetrable C code in linux, the libraries, X11, gecko, gtk,  
>> cairo, and, yes, underlying Python, too, and even Squeak, though  
>> to a much lesser extent. This prevents opening the hood, seeing  
>> how things work, modifying it, constructing new things etc. *This*  
>> is against the OLPC philosophy, which explicitly encourages  
>> constructionist learning.
> If you're going to flame, can't you do any better than that? ;-)
>
> Sure there are lessons to be learned from the mistakes of the past,  
> and we're forced to use software that sucks because there's  
> currently no better alternative, but you should be more specific  
> and suggest better alternatives when you complain about what's  
> wrong, if you want to advance the state of the art!

I guess you did not see my reply to your previous message, where I  
specifically pointed to how indeed we are advancing the state of the  
art?

- Bert -