Kirby writes:

As per an exchange by Thomas Kalka (on behalf of Alice) and A.M. Kuchling, who maintains python.org/community/projects.html, Alice is now an all new Java program.[1] Following Kuchling's example, I've removed the link to Alice from the edu-sig page.

Some not very sporting or appropriate, but snide and knowing remark might be expected of me on this occasion. And I don't like to disappoint. Something about a revised raison d'etre du jour adopted by Alice is about all I've come up with, though. Art