From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2007-03-15T00:19:11+09:00
Subject: Re: IDEA: Ruby "offline" CD / DVD

On 14 Mar 2007, at 15:02, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Eleanor McHugh wrote:
>> Personally I'd be more interested in targeting the OLPC $100  
>> laptop, but that's a whole different magnitude of project ;)
> I've forgotten where it is, but you can actually download and run a  
> "virtual" OLPC, and presumably there's a development kit close by  
> if in fact one is needed. One Ruby Per Child? Why not?

My thought exactly. Imagine a world in which 100 million teenagers  
from the developing world all had the benefit of Ruby. Not that I  
object to it being a python-based system right now, but I reckon  
Ruby's a subtly more disruptive technology and I'd love to see  
teenagers in the developing world experience the same explosion of  
creativity that we in the developed world did back in the 1980s :)


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
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