[Edu-sig] More OLPC chatter

[Ivan Krstić]

On Jun 29, 2007, at 6:29 PM, kirby urner wrote:
> One way around this shortcoming of Sugar's is to suggest that once
> kids are mature enough to eyeball the kind of convoluted source
> code

Yes, and we tend to think that's not the right way.

> Adults need to focus on stable developer environments like Wing's
> or whatever (or like IDLE for starters).  So at your bat mitzvah or
> other ceremony, you maybe trade in your much loved OLPC XO
> (and your teddy bear), and move up to something more expensive,
> with a more traditional source code treatment (anyone ready for
> C yet?).

Is there a reason you think you can't happily run a normal editor,  
compiler and shell on an XO? You seem to be strangely conflating  
software that's shipped with the XO by default with both its hardware  
and the limits of purposes for which it can be used.

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