Re: New symbolic/numeric/dynamic/intuitive programming language

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:23:08 -0800 (PST),
daveparker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks everyone for all the feedback!

I changed the first paragraph at www.flamingthunder.com
to something perhaps less contentious.

Is that supposed to be an answer to my question?
You said


Right now, more elementary school students are using Flaming
Thunder than Python.

and various people asked how you knew that that was so.
Instead of answering honestly you say that you've changed
the wording on a web site to something "less contentious"?

_If_ that's an answer to the question then we can only
assume that what you meant was that you _don't_ know
that more kids are using FT than Python, that in fact
you were just making that up.

Just making things up is not good for your credibility.
Regusing to admit it when you're called on it is worse.

I won't be around today to post because I'm heading off
to a meeting with some education officials.

By next Tuesday I expect to release the next update to
Flaming Thunder, which will include some of the
features that some of you have requested. I'll post
here when it's up.

Thanks again!

David C. Ullrich
.

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