PEP0238 lament

[Tim Peters]

[Skip Montanaro]
> I'm not a denizen of the edu-sig list, but Guido has mentioned the
> Alice folks (I think they are the ancestors of the VPython folks)
> before as a significant influence on his ideas about this subject.
> Perhaps you would class them as educators and not numeric people, but
> I would throw them in the numeric camp.

Does it make one whit of difference to anything here?  If so, I read Matt
Conway's doctoral dissertation when this issue was still new, and it's far
more about pedagogy than numerics in Alice.