[Edu-sig] Brainstorming about January

[Arthur]

Gregor writes -

> P.S.: Some conversations on the list - e. g. the one following the
> posting to which this is a reply - are really difficult to follow for
> me, as I'm not using English as a native language. Sometimes there seems
> to prevail some strange sort of humour or animosity. If that is funny
> for you, that's o.k. but nevertheless I doubt if it's useful for our
> concerns. 

I guess it is a matter of how one defines "our concerns".  

Or perhaps more accurately, a matter of defining who is included in the "we"
implied by your use of the word "our".

Kirby found it necessary to publicly disassociate himself from my feelings
about Alan Kay - because someone observing might otherwise take my position
to be representative of that of the Python community, or a significant
segment of it.  Silence was not an option for him, in that situation.

I guess it might be said that I have found myself in a similar situation
here, at various times.

I have put great effort - for better or for worse - into the creation of
PyGeo. 

Not only is it written in Python, but I consider it to be entwined with
Python.  The possibility of porting it to another language, as much as I
would sometimes like, does not present itself as a decent possibility. It is
native to Python, as a language.

So it is rather sad that I have in fact found it necessary - more often than
I would like - to actively disassociate myself from (at least my sense) of
the who "we" might be taken to be.

I will leave it at that.

And BTW, I meant to be paying Kirby a complement in the post to which I
think you were referring.

Art