[Edu-sig] re: Alice update

[Arthur]

>And while I still dislike what I am seeing there, fervently, I guess my
>claim that no Python connection is in fact wrong.

I should amend even that a bit.  I don't dislike what I am seeing so
much -as I dislike the pretensions connected  to it.

I don't think Alice can be considered a serious tool for 3d world authoring
in comparison to, for example:

http://www.adobe.com/products/atmosphere/main.html#

and many others,  free and commericial, open sourced and closed.

Nor as introduction to programming - other than in name.

The hostility is largely out of fear.   That it might in fact somehow "win".
Considering the funding and the prestige of the institution in which it is
based.

The subject - I'm sure - appears to be a personal obsession.

Which is true enough.  To the extent I am talking about the specifcs here,
its not something worth getting worked up about.

But it is also to me a broad and symbolic issue. To me, Alice represents
much that it is anti-thesis to the Open Source worldview - as I interpet it
and as I experience it.  And this seems so apparent to me, that I am
dumbfounded when I feel there is no one else within earshot who sees it like
I do, or is at least, is willing  say so.

Art



Art