Look and Learn . . .

[Richmond Mathewson]

 http://scratch.mit.edu/

Well, it seems OK if you want to knock out fairly
mindless games and goofy proletarian art.

Sorry, I'm a terrible snob.

It is also "visual programming" and "dataflow" stuff
again.

Just think, for a moment, of a 60 year-old expert in,
let us say, mediaeval history, who only uses a
computer for typing academic papers and checking
his/her email.

Scratch will not help him/her one little bit.

Nor the Primary Teacher who wants to inculcate basic
French vocab.

sincerely, Richmond Mathewson

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