On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:31 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote:
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Count me a skeptic that there's anything unattractive about Python that's to blame for keeping it from wider use in school systems.
[SNIP]
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Kirby
Hmm, I don't see anything in the original post that refer to "wider use in school systems" or, indeed, any reference to schools at all. I think the original poster made a perfectly sensible observation, one that I have read many times in different settings. It is a fact that the hurdle to try Ruby via http://tryruby.hobix.com is much lower than having to download and install Python. There are a couple of places where one can do something similar online (http://www.trypython.org/ , if you have silverlight installed on your computer) (http://datamech.com/devan/trypython/trypython.py) but none is done in as an attractive way as the tryruby site is. I think it is a valid goal to try and remedy this situation - something I am (just like Michael Foord and others) trying to address. <usenet etiquette rant> And I don't understand why the quoted message appeared to be a reply to what I wrote when not a single line of quoted text was something I wrote. </usenet etiquette rant> André
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Andre Roberge <andre.roberge@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Jurgis Pralgauskis <jurgis.pralgauskis@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
it would make python more attractive, if there would be possibility to try it online like ruby has http://tryruby.hobix.com
maybe this could be made with jython , http://code.google.com/p/epy/ or crunchy on GAE
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