[OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

[Geoff Canyon]

It's interesting that you bring up the slaughterhouse analogy -- I've used
it on many occasions to make the opposite point: I know that cows are
butchered to make steaks. I've seen videos of it, in fact. I shouldn't have
to learn how to do it to order at McDonalds.

There's a world of difference between "Kids today" and "computer
programmer." Forcing the 99.9% of kids who *won't* become computer
programmers to use a command line because of the .1% who will is like
forcing every kid to butcher a hog before they are allowed to eat bacon.

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>   Kids today don't need to know
>> what a command line is because the vast majority of them will never see
>> one
>> in their lives.
>>
>
> Really? I wonder about that. Surely every potential computer programmer
> should
> have some sort of understanding of command lines. This is rather like
> saying that
> that children brought up in cities should have no understanding that
> animals are slaughtered
> so that they can have meat on their plates, because they will never see a
> slaughter-house.